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...graduated from the University of South Dakota Law School ('35), but never went into private practice. Commissioned an Army First Lieutenant soon after Pearl Harbor, Adams fought in North Africa and Europe, earned a Bronze Star. After the war, he became national director of the Young Republicans, then clerk of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and in 1949 moved to the Pentagon...
Joseph Nye Welch, 63, the Army's special counsel for the investigation, speaks with a honeyed fluency and a meaningful grin that hints of legal cunning. Iowa-born Welch, a Boston lawyer, when in his Boston office, does most of his work standing at a high, old-fashioned clerk's desk...
Security investigations, from this point of view, operate very nearly on the level of discharging a clerk from a dime store. Since all doubts are accounted in favor of the government, Senator McCarthy's evidence need not be either conclusive, adequate, or true. His charges must only cause doubts sufficient to warrant further investigation or the firing of the accused...
Ever since he fled from Ottawa's Soviet embassy in 1945, Cipher Clerk Igor Gouzenko has been guarded by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police against Communist reprisals. Last week his Mountie guard was withdrawn. The government decided that it was no longer practical to keep watch over the Russian fugitive who exposed the Soviet spy ring in Canada...
...finest novel about Africa ever written. Author Thompson is no Gary yet, but his hero, like Mr. Johnson, is that charming innocent, the unspoiled primitive man thrust into and beaten up by a world he never made. Of the two, Johnson had it better; he merely became a clerk in the British civil service. When the enlistment officer came around to see Abu Zed, the wily old chief saw a chance to get rid of his greatest nuisance. He sent Gadein off to the Buna Service Corps, a native transport outfit attached to the British army in North Africa...