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...hostile question period, Braden denied that he had ever been a member of the Communist party, and rejected the implication that the bombing had been part of a "Communist plot" to exploit the segregation issue. Law enforcement agencies in Louisville, he said, attempted to "cover up the bombing by instituting a witch-hunt...
...family moved into the home, it was dynamited. An indictment was obtained against a friend of Wade's charging that he blew the house up. This indictment has not been tried, but Braden was tried and convicted of sedition, on charges asserting that he brought the situation about to exploit the segregation issue...
...Continental Oil allocated $700 million over the next five years to find and exploit new gas and oil reserves in the U.S. and Canada...
...amounting to 4,600,000 acres, but his disciples can point to only 213,000 acres actually redistributed. About half this amount has come from landlords in Bihar state, who have given Bhave large tracts of barren land, and thereby achieved a spurious odor of sanctity, while continuing to exploit tenants on their good land. Criticism of the muddled organization of Bhave's Bhoodan (land-gift) movement has steadily mounted. Cracked Bombay Governor Harekrushna Mahtab: "Gandhi wished to abolish poverty; Bhoodan merely distributes...
Playwright Mary Drayton has tried to exploit the traditional Southerner's predicament in a time when deep-seated customs must die in face of social progress. She has brought to this situation the modern, probably Yankee assertion, that it's quite proper to mess around sexually with someone before marriage, the better to suit one's mate later. The two require a good deal of delicacy in treatment, particularly if the play has no moral resolution. Unhappily, the makers of Debut have used a heavy hand...