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...bills did not get a hearing until March and April. Their recommendations were essentially the same: they all outlawed subversive groups and established heavy penalties for anyone who teaches or aids the overthrow of the government. They all left it up to the Attorney General to ferret out the subversives (although many a legislator would be glad to help) and prosecute them before the courts. The McCarthy-Dorgan education bill and the Curb Communism bill also included loyalty oaths for all state employees--notably teachers...
Since last winter's basketball scandals, almost every sport has become fair game for reformers. This week, attacking on four fronts, probers, investigators and plain publicity hounds were sniffing around trying to ferret out some of the more noisome complaints: ¶ The Department of Justice attacked the National Football League's restriction on the telecasting of games. "If this suit is successful," warned a DOJ man, "action will be taken in the cases of all other sporting events." ¶ A congressional committee, picking up where it left off last summer, called more witnesses in its investigation of monopoly...
...ferret out the secrets of weather conditions behind enemy lines, the Air Force last week was busily briefing a subtle new kind of spy. Its name is the Grasshopper; its job is to parachute into enemy territory and report back by radio. When it goes into action, the Grasshopper looks for all the world like one of the intelligent mechanical monsters of an animated movie cartoon...
...better to fight Communist-led Huk rebels, President Quirino last October ordered a nationwide suspension of the writ of habeas corpus.* After three months, it looked as if the suspension was being used less to ferret out Communists than to intimidate Quirino critics...
TIME'S main function is to report the news of the week-the real and significant news from wherever our editors and correspondents can ferret it out. That has been our purpose from the start. But in these critical days, TIME, as most of you know, often finds it necessary to give a summary of the events and policies which have brought the world to its present state. Such a summary appeared in our issue of Jan. 15. It was called "Giant in a Snare...