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...Last March Ike lined up with the states which want to transfer the rich offshore oil lands from federal control back to state control. "That is just what the oil lobby wants," said Truman. "Talk about corruption. Talk about stealing from the people. That would be robbery in broad daylight-and on a colossal scale. It would make Teapot Dome look like small change . . . I intend to stand up and fight to protect the people's interest in this matter." Since a bill to return the Tidelands to the states was already on its way from Congress...
...signed in 1949 by 61 nations, including the U.S. and Soviet Russia. In general, it provides that the "detaining power" must treat its prisoners humanely, providing adequate food, shelter, clothing, recreational facilities, medical care, etc. The Convention forbids "collective punishment for individual acts, corporal punishment, imprisonment in premises without daylight, and in general, any form of torture or cruelty...
...last suggestion. But Whitehead had come prepared to make his argument sink in. As of last July, he said, the U.S. mainland was defended against atomic attack by fewer than 100 all-weather fighters, which could not have destroyed more than 10% to 15% of a force attacking in daylight. At night, or during instrument conditions, U.S. interceptors would have shot down less than 5%. A well-executed surprise atomic air attack on the U.S. would have succeeded, said Whitehead, "beyond the fondest hope of the [enemy] commander...
...Daylight saving time began (in 23 out of 48 states) making train schedules more incomprehensible than usual, and keeping children awake-wriggling, crying for glasses of water or sneaking peeks at comic books-for an extra hour nightly...
Winthrop's solid-hitting softball team, potentially the strongest in the House League, finally brought some of its power into the daylight yesterday, walloping an in-and-out Kirkland squad, 14 to 7. The Puritan baseball team, led by pitcher Ken Eddy, with a triple and a double, took the measure of the Deacons...