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Last week New Broom Ulbricht began to sweep his party clean of the influence of those who had been contaminated by contact with Western freedom. Charging them generally with "lack of trust in the Soviet Union, in which no doubt is possible," he kicked six ranking Reds out of their jobs and out of the party. Ulbricht arrested all six on charges of conspiring with U.S. Relief Worker Noel Havilan Field, whom Ulbricht sneeringly described as "the American spy and merciful Samaritan." Field, a onetime Communist sympathizer who disappeared mysteriously in Central Europe last year (TIME, Oct. 24), has become...
...Much Success. Since the Generalissimo appointed him governor last December, Wu has ably wielded the broom of reform. He has managed to halt inflation by curbs on the amount of money in circulation. Wu has also managed to repeat his feat of Hankow: he has balanced Formosa's budget-not without drastic forced loans and capital levies...
...years after the first arrest, New Jersey's Governor Alfred E. Driscoll signed a full pardon, and another would probably be available soon for Betty Lester, since enfeebled by a stroke. Sixty-four-year-old Cliff Shephard, tearfully pleased with the final triumph of justice, laid aside his broom and towel, thanked the State for excusing the crimes he had never committed...
...didn't go along with the report at all. The Organization of American States' coffee commission whipped out a report charging, among other things, that Senator Gillette was encouraging Communism by trying to get the price of coffee down. The ambassadors themselves huddled for days at sage, broom-browed Mauricio Nabuco's Brazilian embassy, batted out a lengthy rebuttal of the Gillette report ("it proposes . . . [potential] economic warfare against our nations"), defended the year's 70% rise in coffee prices as the natural consequence of "the law of supply & demand...
...cheers of spectators, the three with milkshakes, a store broom, and a ladder proceeded to extinguish the burning awning...