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OWES $25,OOO BACK TAXES AND INTEREST, REVENUE AGENTS CLAIM. Last week McCarthy called a press conference. Its purpose: to flourish a Treasury tax-refund check...
...seemed just another minor setback when, on a September morning in 1928, Dr. Alexander Fleming looked at a little glass dish in which he had been growing some staphylococci (the germs that flourish in boils) and saw that the culture was "spoiled." A kind of claim-jumping mold had moved in and started its own colonies among the staph. A less observant scientist, or one more fussy about keeping a tidy laboratory, would have thrown out the adulterated growth. But Fleming's keen blue eye noticed a peculiarity: around each patch of mold growth was a bare ring where...
...Interests. Cutting across all party lines are the special interests, which flourish in a body where a government's very life depends on the swing of 10 or 20 votes. Biggest is the alcohol lobby, which keeps French winegrowers, beet farmers and distillers producing twice the alcohol the French can drink and forces the government to buy the surplus at four times the world price. The North African lobby, run by Senator Henri Borgeaud, took alarm when Mendès tried to reduce the colons' control of the local police. As a result, Algeria's Rene Mayer...
...their own grandfathers. The first great photographer, Matthew Brady, portrayed Lincoln many times in the course of the Civil War, and generations of schoolboys have studied Brady's portraits. Few ever saw the beardless, relatively untried Lincoln opposite, which was displayed with a Lincoln's Birthday flourish this week in Washington's Corcoran Gallery...
...difficult to se how gaiety can flourish under so much tension, but the West Berliner plays as hard as he works--almost with desperation. theatres, night-clubs, and smoky jazz joints are jammed. so are the great sport places and the beaches of Wansee. The shop windows and the passing women along Kurfustendam are among the most stylish in Europe. Even the ladies of leisure on Joachimstalerstrasse take great pains to make themselves intriguing and attractive...