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...United Electrical Workers' James J. Matles knew just how to bait the House Un-American Activities Committee without getting gored. Unlike his Redlining colleague, Julius Emspak, who arrogantly refused to answer the committee's questions and was sentenced to jail for contempt of Congress (TIME, March 12), Matles carefully prepared his line of retreat. In Washington last week, the same federal judge who convicted Emspak threw out a similar contempt charge against Matles. Though their manners had been the same, a careful reading of the testimony convinced the judge that the committee understood "this defendant properly invoked...
...everyone who can go to one of the Big Three." But when the Day of Judgement arrives (and it's got us but the neck already) we find these distinctions singularly absent. It's stimulating from a sanguinary point of view to note that we are considered fitting infantry-bait, and when we're called we'll all assume a suitably docile role; but the present lack of consistency, scholastic ranking-wise does deserve review. The dire need for armed manpower does not necessitate jettisoning that which we have been brought up to believe is a basic fact...
Compensation. Near Long Beach, Calif., Harold Hartigan went duck hunting in Anaheim Slough, bagged a sea bass stranded by the tide; Don Jasiewicz went fishing for sea bass, snagged a duck that tried to snatch his bait...
Reports that copies of the Pontoon, now almost a collectors item, are being offered to new subscribers as bait were dally denied by members of the staff yesterday...
...give bait to caught fish." Undergraduates--all of whom must pay the University for beard--often find nine o'clock too early to get up for breakfast. Their extra time in bed does not cost the University a cent. The University, indeed, is paid for food it never...