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Naguib himself explained what lay behind the army's latest coup. "Speed," he said, "was one of the objectives of our movement." The army was exasperated by Aly Maher's slowcoach approach to the key issue of the whole cleanup movement: land reform. Instead of getting started on the breakup of large estates, Maher's Cabinet had hemmed & hawed, appointed one committee after another to "study" the question. Prices were still skyhigh, favoritism was still common in government promotion lists, and Wafdist politicians plotted to overthrow the new regime...
Behind the Scenes. As counsel for the Chelf Committee, Mitchell set out to do a major cleanup job on the Justice Department, but failed to make some of his cases stick. When the investigation began to fizzle, he used his authority as committee counsel (plus his friendship with Cardinal Stritch and Stevenson) as an effective political gun stuck into Attorney General McGranery's ribs. In this way, Mitchell has taken a hand in the running of the department, pushed through certain appointments. His behind-the-scenes operation raised the level of the department and protected his party; whether this...
...dawn one day last week, eight Egyptian army officers armed with Tommy guns and acting in the name of reform swooped down on the brothers' Cairo home and arrested them. Readers of their papers were astounded, since the Amin twins had been in the forefront of the very cleanup drive that kicked King Farouk...
...Baby (Frank Sinatra; Columbia). Crooner Sinatra, who has been in need of a hit record for years, turns up in a socko mood that might turn the trick, "dim clam cleanup the rim ram room," shouts Frankie, " 'cause your bim bam baby's comin' home tonight...
...hard-core Communists were subdued (TIME, June 16), the other tough enclosures on Koje toppled like ninepins, with no further fighting between guards and prisoners. By week's end, some 30,000 prisoners had been moved into smaller enclosures, where they were searched and fingerprinted. During the cleanup nearly 800 anti-Communists had escaped from Communist control and were safely segregated, and more than 100 ringleaders in kangaroo-court murders had been identified, dragged out and isolated. It seemed physically impossible that any further mass rebellion could occur. Reported "Bull" Boatner: "The worst is over...