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Bugged Flowerpots. Mao has not, of course, given up his campaign to overthrow President Liu Shao-chi, the "pro-Moscow revisionist" who remains his most powerful foe. In the Kwangsi region last week, a Maoist tabloid accused one party loyalist of "bugging" flowerpots and sofas in Mao's headquarters "to procure information for China's Khrushchev"-Liu. In Peking, police forced the President's daughter to give public testimony against her father, then arrested her because her criticism was "insufficient...
...then Bobby Kennedy entered the picture. Would the appearance of so formidable a foe force McCarthy out of the running? "Look, what do I have to do to convince you that I have no intention of withdrawing?" he snapped at the question. "I have said at least 20 times: I don't have in mind becoming a dropout...
With the ability, wealth, imagination and governmental resources to meet its pressing problems, said the President at the swearing-in ceremony for CAB Head John Crocker, the U.S. has nothing to fear but fear itself: "I sometimes think we have the power to deal with any foe anywhere except within our own boundaries. A great deal of our weaknesses are caused by pitting our strength against each other and chewing on ourselves...
...university was dragging its feet on the product, Columbia backed out of the deal. The university said that it had made "a well-intentioned mistake in entering a highly controversial and competitive commercial field." It had indeed, suggested Washington's Democratic Senator Warren Magnuson. The outspoken tobacco industry foe charged that Strickman's secret polymer device was "not as efficient" as "some filters now in production...
...Y.M.C.A. volunteer during World War I, and his son Clark was one of the famed "four chaplains" who went to their deaths aboard the U.S.S. Dorchester in 1943 -but he was no pacifist. He urged U.S. entry into World War II, then and later was an ardent, vociferous foe of Communism, which he described as "the supreme threat" to the world...