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...abustle with expectation of Christmas in New York. The passengers tripped ashore, most of them worrying about nothing more serious than whether Customs would find that extra bottle of Arpege cached in the shaving kit. But 271 members of the crew were held on board. Reason: they had run afoul of the new McCarran Walter Immigration law which went into effect at midnight...
...Grey-Eyed People (by John D. Hess) was a two-tone play whose colors brutally clashed. It told of a suburban individualist who staged a hot-tempered crusade on behalf of a former Communist who ran afoul of the community. Part of the time the author-a veteran TV writer-seemed concerned with a pressing contemporary situation. The rest of the time he merely seemed concerned with what it could yield in laughs...
...talent was timely rather than timeless; moreover, in his native Germany, Fallada and his symbolic "Little Man" pinned their hopes on Hitler, and it turned out to be a luckless choice for both. Fallada's books were pronounced "undesirable" by the Nazis, and in 1944 he ran afoul of the law and was jailed. Though specific charges were never pressed against him, he shared a cell for six months with two insane criminals...
Fish had no sooner announced than he ran afoul of New York's nomination-filing law. Purposely rigged against new parties, the law states that a candidate must get five thousand signatures in each of the state's counties to get on the ballot. Fish did fine in New York City, but he had to give up in the wilds of the Adirondack mountain counties, where it is hard enough to find five thousand inhabitants, let alone disgruntled Republicans. In Connecticut, however, Miss Vivian Kellems met the filing requirements and began sniping at both major candidates in her weekly radio...
What They Did. Their chief crime was that they ran afoul of Maurice Thorez, boss of the French Reds, who went to Russia in 1950 to recuperate from a stroke. Thorez felt at home in Russia: a deserter from the French army, he had spent the war years there while his underground comrades in France risked their lives fighting the Nazis (and laying the groundwork for the Reds' postwar power). Marty and Tillon resented Comrade Thorez's absentee leadership. Marty called Thorez and his wife, Jeannette Vermeersch, "resisters from Moscow." At a meeting of the French politburo, Tillon...