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...quietly in Queens, N.Y., and even serving as a World War II civil defense warden. Then, in 1946,1nformer Louis Budenz fingered him as one of Moscow's top agents-organizer of Red undergrounds in Spain, France, Switzerland and now the U.S., where he bossed the wartime Communist apparatus. Arrested on a conspiracy charge, Eisler jumped bail, got away aboard a Polish liner to Europe, where he eventually became head of East German radio...
...SFAC was doomed at birth. Like many other student groups (HUC, for example), its precise role in the policy-making apparatus of the University was unclear. Most members did not know until after the Faculty had voted down the Dow resolution that the SFAC would have to channel its proposals through the Faculty before they would reach the Administration and be enacted. Two months later, the SFAC's status remains unclear: Can a television proposal go straight to the Council of Deans? Does a resolution asking SFAC members to take polls of their constituents require Faculty approval? No one really...
...headlines to be won. In Rockefeller's case, total abstention from primaries, or even holding out for a relatively easy run in Oregon, has special risks. Those who accuse him of not being a "regular" Republican would count it as further evidence of his disdain for the party apparatus and for traditional procedures. Besides, Nixon can hardly be counted on to stand still for the next couple of months...
Confalone was apparently working on a distillation experiment when the explosion occurred, shortly after 3 p.m. It shattered his apparatus and a fluorescent light in the lab. He was alone in the room at the time. Lab workers estimated the damage...
...State and Defense, as traveling evangelists for the Johnsonian word in the next few months; 3) stress, in the post-convention period, the human factor rather than the statistical and fiscal in defend ing domestic programs, with heavy use of sophisticated television advertising; 4) revive the enervated Democratic Party apparatus, with emphasis on voter-registration drives; and 5) delay Johnson's overt electioneering as long as possible to avoid voter ennui in the crucial weeks next fall...