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Harmless Crackpot? Then Houston Lawyer-Industrialist Roy Hofheinz, 39, who had opened a 50,000-watt radio station, KSOX, in Harlingen, joined the attack on Hoiles in an all-out crusade over the air. His station also began taking ads away from the Hoiles papers. Partly because he was pinched by this competition, and partly because they disagreed with him, Hoiles fired the three editors who had stayed on when he bought the papers...
London's tabloid Daily Mirror is Britain's earthiest daily and the world's biggest (circ. 4,500,000). Until last week, its undisputed boss was 67-year-old Harry Guy Bartholomew, who was responsible for its pepperpot tone and all-out backing of Labor. Last week, after 50 years on the Mirror, "Mister Bart" was out. He was retiring, said the board of directors, because of his "advancing years and an earnest desire to promote the advancement of younger men." Actually, at a turbulent meeting of the Mirror board, Mister Bart was voted out of power...
...part of Charlie Wilson's gamble -part of his policy, in fact- was to build up the U.S. productive capacity so that, in the event of all-out war, U.S. industry could shift to all-out war production without stripping a gear. In this expansion, the U.S. was successful to a degree realized by few at home and almost no one abroad. "Dynamic," often a businessman's cliche, was the right word for U.S. industry...
...Very Hairy Ride. If the enemy launched an all-out attack against U.N. troops and supply centers, how would allied antiaircraft perform? Probably not too well, at first. Reported TIME'S Tokyo Bureau Chief Dwight Martin: "There are indications that some of the Red equipment is better than ours. Also, the first days of any Red attempt to knock us out of the air war would probably see our AA. come off a poor second to theirs, because our crews just haven't had the practice...
...Long Pull. All-out mobilization, while easier, is not what the U.S. requires for the long, long arms-production pull that may be in prospect. All-out mobilization makes sense only in a general war or after a decision to go to war, whether the enemy attacks or not. The U.S. has not and will not make that decision...