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Last week Bernard Goldfine swore that Cotton had not represented him as a lawyer since going to Congress in 1947. Yet, in at least one instance, Norris Cotton still does represent Goldfine. The instance is that of the Rogers Hotel in Lebanon. Goldfine is the real owner of the Rogers. In 1943, Cotton negotiated the purchase of the hotel as a front for Client Goldfine, oversaw the title search and made the option payment from his personal bank account. Goldfine repaid Cotton for the option, but it was still necessary for Cotton to take final title to the hotel...
...said a State Department passport official after the Supreme Court held (TIME, June 30) that the Secretary of State has no statutory authority to deny passports on the basis of "beliefs" or "associations." Warning of just that kind of urgency, President Eisenhower last week sent a message to Congress requesting "clear statutory authority" for the Secretary to deny passports in the interest of national security. "Each day and week that passes without [this legislation] exposes us to great danger." And Secretary of State Dulles followed up with a draft bill providing that applicants could be denied passports if engaged...
...Seventh International Cancer Congress in London this week heard the sobering results of a sweeping study of the effects of smoking on the death rate from cancer and other diseases. Author of the report: Statistician Harold F. Dorn of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Dorn's project was begun in 1954 as a check on the disturbing findings from the American Cancer Society's famed Hammond & Horn survey of 188,000 U.S. males. Researcher Dorn threw his statistical net even wider: it covered 198,000 men (and a sprinkling of women) holding Government life insurance...
...special four-color, 40-page issue. He hustled 2,000 copies to nearby Ladd Air Force Base, where a B-47 was about to take off for Washington. By lunch time next day, every Congressman and Senator had a copy of Snedden's News-Miner headlined: CONGRESS APPROVES ALASKA STATEHOOD...
...been an anticlimax to his arduous, four-year campaign to get Alaska into the Union. Not even Governor Mike Stepovich (TIME, June 9) worked harder. Every fall he put out a special 144-page, four-color issue on the glories of Alaska, sent a copy to every member of Congress and to the editor of every U.S. paper with more than 50,000 circulation...