Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Joe McCarthy was listening to other Senators quarrel over the surface glints and somber depths of his own, strange personality, the people whose real business it is to catch Communists quietly went on catching Communists. On a street corner in Denver, FBI agents collared four big wheels of the Colorado and Utah machines. A fifth was picked up at a Denver airport, a sixth in Pueblo, and a seventh, who had underground contacts with the Colorado group, was nabbed in Los Angeles. Last week's coups brought the total of arrests under the Smith Act (conspiracy to advocate...
...high, bleak Karakoram, mightiest of the Himalayan ranges, China, Russia, India. Tibet. Afghanistan and Pakistan merge in a tumult of mountains. Dominating the peaks, in the northernmost corner of Pakistan-held Kashmir, is the world's second highest mountain: 28,250-ft. Mt. Godwin Austen, known to mountaineers as K-2.* For years, K-2 has been regarded as unclimbable. Last week the news came through that the unclimbable had been climbed by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio, 57, a geology professor at the University of Milan...
...told them this bill was a "corner stone" of the President's program and that no Republican could vote against it and claim to be an Eisenhower supporter at election time. Then Joe collected on more than 30 of the many I.O.U.s he holds, for favors he has done, like getting a creek fixed in one man's district, a patronage job for another's constituent, or a deportation order deferred for the constituent of still another. Result: anticipated defections, particularly in the Ohio and Illinois delegations, did not materialize. The Democratic maneuver, abetted by only...
...remedy for high profits from coffee speculation, said FTC, is to clamp down on the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange. One bill to regulate coffee trading has been passed by the Senate, but it is now tucked away in a corner of the House Agriculture Committee. In the pre-adjournment legislative jam, chances are that the bill will stay in the corner...
...LITTLE HORSE BUS, by Graham Greene (Lothrop; $2), carries its author far from his tortuous bypaths of sin and salvation. This is a sunny-spirited little brief for the old corner "grocer's shop" v. the Cellophane-wrapped modernity of a "Hygienic Emporium." A rickety but gallant old horse bus wins the day for tradition in a cops-and-robbers chase, while Illustrator Dorothy Craigie splashes each page with eye-catching color...