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...public might be fed up with theatrics and McCarthy-style scare tactics; McCarran set his sessions in a small, fourth-floor capital committee room, banned play-by-play television and newsreel coverage. The air of authority stems from the fact that committee investigators swooped down on a Massachusetts barn last February and seized some 300,000 letters and memoranda belonging to the Institute of Pacific Relations. Committee Counsel Robert Morris, a patient young lawyer who was Republican counsel in the Tydings committee hearings last year, soon proved that he had done his homework well as he set up his bits...
...three-week vacation from congressional worries, House Speaker Sam Rayburn heard some bad news from his home in Bonham, Texas: 5,000 bales of his summer hay, stored in a barn before it was cured, had caught fire by spontaneous combustion, burned down the barn, crop...
...letter Lattimore wrote in 1938 to his friend Edward C. Carter, then secretary general of the Institute of Pacific Relations, whose membership included many prominent Americans as well as party-liners. The letter turned up among 300,000 I.P.R. documents dramatically seized last February in Carter's barn near Lee, Mass. Carter and the I.P.R. objected to the seizure indicating that they would willingly have produced the papers themselves...
...largest lecture room was once a subway car barn, its campus is still the city streets, its study halls are still the handiest park benches. Yet in three lean years, the Free University of Berlin has grown into a vigorous symbol of academic liberty. While its famed pre-Nazi counterpart, in the East sector of Berlin, withers and dies from an overdose of Communist dialectic, the Free University may well become the birthplace of a more widespread liberal education than Germany has ever before attained. Last week the young institution got a generous gift of the one thing it needed...
Laying the Ghost. In Bloomington, Ind., after his parents had told him to keep out of the barn because "there's a bogey man in there," five-year-old Philip Oliver smoked him out by burning down the barn...