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Political Debut: In 1946, while Nixon was awaiting discharge at Baltimore, Md., a citizen's committee in California's 12th District ran a newspaper ad seeking a young man willing to run against New Deal Congressman Jerry Voorhis. A friend submitted Nixon's name. There were three...
Thirty-five-year-old Novelist Bazin may have a sneaking sympathy for his hero. As a youngster, he took his father's car, skidded into a tree, went through the windshield headfirst, and spent two years in an asylum for "pathological deviation of intellectual kind." There, however, whatever resemblance...
Weak spot of the Vopo is morale. The men are recruited from East Germany's tattered, disillusioned youth, enticed by promises of the best wages, food and clothing. When recruiting lags, state factories discharge young workers and state employment agencies offer these unemployed a choice: join the Vopo or...
Dry Battery. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. introduced a new "dry"-type storage battery which is guaranteed to last three months longer than ordinary batteries. Its acid is not added to the battery until it is sold, unlike the conventional battery, whose acid is put in at the factory, resulting in...
*Last week the Air Force softened its get-tough policy towards the stay-downers, canceled the court-martial sentence (of two years hard labor and dishonorable discharge) of ist Lieut. Verne Goodwin( TIME, April 28), allowed him to resign "under conditions other than honorable."