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Longtime Communist Ben Gold, 55, president of the Fur & Leather Workers Union, was found guilty by a Federal Court jury in Washington last week of making false statements to a Government agency. His crime: filing a Taft-Hartley law non-Communist affidavit on Aug. 30, 1950, a few days after "fraudulently" announcing his resignation from the party...
...started all the excitement was smooth-talking Jay Walters Jr.. 60, who drifted into Salt Lake City about a year ago, just after Charlie Steen's big uranium strike (TIME, Aug. 3). Starting with some claims, he formed the Uranium Oil and Trading Co., capitalized at 3,000,000 one-cent shares. When brokerage firms shied away from selling them, Walters enlisted the help of a young customer's man named Jack Coombs, who set up shop at a coffee counter operated by Frank Whitney in the Continental Bank & Trust Co. Building. In a week, they sold...
...spent weeks in a deep coma and recovering, bit by bit, the power to focus his eyes, speak, understand and remember things. Within a year, he was back at his mother's home (TIME, Aug. 18. 1952), but as he learned to walk and talk better and coordinate more efficiently, he became restless and overactive, sometimes violent. So he was admitted to the V.A.'s Brentwood Neuropsychiatric Hospital...
Psychological Weapons. When he turned to techniques, Andrews revived the long-neglected canvass. In selected cities, revenue agents went from house to house asking for evidence that a tax return was filed for the previous year (TIME, Aug. 31). Like most income-tax enforcement techniques, this was a psychological weapon. Andrews was not nearly so interested in the citizens actually questioned by the canvassers as he was in the thousands of others who would hear about the canvass and be stricken with honesty. When the Los Angeles newspapers said that a canvass had begun, 1,200 people showed...
...reduce this waste has been tried with some success by Astronomer Andre Lallemande of Paris (TIME, Aug. 13) 1951). Instead of using a photographic plate direct, he focused the light on a "photoemissive surface" of antimony and cesium, which gives off electrons when struck by light. The electrons jump to a photographic plate and expose it more efficiently than direct light does...