Word: file
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...satellites, political repression in East Germany is getting worse, and even more reminiscent of Nazi tactics. To combat widespread apathy among workers, which this year by the regime's own estimate contributed to $180 million in lost industrial production, the Reds introduced a system of rank-and-file "control teams" with wide powers to crack down on dissidents. At the political prison in Hohenschönhausen near Berlin, a former Nazi forced-labor camp, the Communists recently revived the infamous system of "Kapos"-prisoners hand-picked for cruelty who mete out punishment to other prisoners for the sake...
...check the third-country gambit by routing all import certificates through the Customs Criminal Institute of Cologne, the only one of its kind in Europe. To ferret out forgeries and check suspicions, the institute's Falstaffian head Dr. Ludwig Franzheim, and his staff have a central smugglers' file of 62,000 names, a list of 7,000 suspicious shipping agents and boat owners, and dossiers on 6,000 unreliable truckers. But, mourns Franzheim, "intellectual smuggling dominates today," and already the smugglers have found ways to beat the tariff collectors by falsifying customs declarations...
Ninety-eight years later, Critic Edmund Wilson, the most gifted and eloquent expositor of Marxism the U.S. ever produced, failed to file an income tax return. He went on failing to file right up to 1955, when he got around to opening financial conversations with the U.S. Government. In the nature of things, these talks were painful. They provoked in Wilson second and even more painful thoughts about the nature of government, of bureaucracy, of the status of free men, of the rights of a private man against the huge man-chewing, electronically endowed apparatus of a modern state...
...argues ultimate questions and the moral complicity of the taxpayer in the Government's research into germ warfare, or the "lunacy" of a $30 billion program to put an astronaut on the moon, the whole structure is somehow involved in the small fact that Wilson failed to file any return whatever for ten years and, when brought up short, pleaded ignorance...
Aware that many liberals doubted his devotion to civil rights, Johnson immediately called for the "earliest possible passage" of the bill now before the House. He also sanctioned the attempt by Rep. Richard Bolling (D.Mo,) to file a discharge petition that would extricate the bill from the hostile clutches of the Rules Committee, and its wily chairman Rep. Howard Smith (D-Va.) It is considered likely that Bolling will pet the 218 signatures he needs to bring the bill to the Boor, or will at least force Rep. Smith to grant a rule...