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...behest of Wisconsin's Joseph McCarthy, the U.S. Senate issued contempt citations against Harvard Physicist Wendell Furry and Psychologist Leon Kamin. Reason for the citations: though both men had finally discarded the use of the Fifth Amendment, and though both had freely admitted that they had once been members of the Communist Party, neither would play informer against others who might have been members too. ¶ Appointment of the week: Clark George Kuebler, 46, president of Ripon College, Wis., to succeed J. Harold Williams as second provost of the University of California's Santa Barbara College. A former...
Missed Point? When G.M. dealers wrote in to complain that the story would hurt their sales, the W.SJ. printed the letters and an editorial: "When a newspaper begins to suppress . . . news, whether at the behest of its advertisers or on pleas from special segments of business ... it will soon cease to have readers." The Journal, rejoined G.M., seemed to miss the point. "To the extent that this was a reporting of news derived from sources free to divulge the information, we have no objection . . . even though such information, published many months in advance of the introduction of new models...
Communism's strong foothold in Italy today, commented De Gasperi testily, grew largely out of "the Roosevelt climate" and Allied policy at the end of World War II. Last week, at the behest of the United Press correspondent in Rome, De Gasperi explained...
...Comrade Stalin's Behest." Facing East, Georgy Malenkov could not be so sure of his biggest and most important ally-Mao Tse-tung, conqueror of China...
...long panegyric to the late Stalin, Mao's only reference to Stalin's successor was: "We fully believe the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Soviet government, headed by Comrade Malenkov, will definitely be able to follow Comrade Stalin's behest to drive forward . . ." First the party, then the government, then Malenkov. One possible explanation: Mao recognizes that any struggle for power in Russia would inevitably spill over into China; alone of all subordinates, he dared pursue a course of semi-neutrality until certain who is in the saddle in Moscow...