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...Freedom & Democrorsia." Hell night's parade went on. A Puerto Rican seaman brought from jail with possible appendicitis, an ex-coal miner with chronic pulmonary fibrosis, a young boy superficially but painfully hurt in an auto crash. Sixteen babies were born, one by Caesarian...
Most people get restless now and then, but among many good newsmen, restlessness is a chronic occupational malady. One reporter so afflicted is Ramelle C. MaCoy, who was sending his dispatches to TIME from Guatemala a year ago, from Korea six months later, and who will be filing his stories from Buenos Aires in a week or two. He will take over from Frank Shea, who returns to the U.S. this month after an eventful year in the Argentine capital...
...prison term. Charged with contempt of Congress for walking out on the Kefauver crime committee last March, he based his defense on the contentions that i) television hearings are unconstitutional (rejected by Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan), and 2) his doctors had warned him of danger to his chronic sore throat (an arrested cancer) if he testified. The doctors were put on the stand. Both said they had told Costello he could testify...
...itself for the plunge into commercial broadcasting. The Labor Party had planned to renew BBC's simon-pure license for another 15 years, but the Tories got in and granted only a six-month extension while they take time to think things over. To solve BBC's chronic money troubles (income is limited to a small annual tax on radio and TV sets, profits from BBC publications, and appropriations by Parliament), the Tories are considering such radical departures as one all-commercial frequency for radio and, possibly, two hours of commercial programs a night...
...years, would be the undoing of any more conventional home. Jane (Iris Mann), 13, is a rejected, distrustful child of divorced parents. The somewhat younger Jimmy-John (Clifford Tatum Jr.) wears braces for a leg deformity which, in setting him apart from other children, has sent him into a chronic bellicose silence...