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Died. Dr. Louis Ernst Schmidt, 88, famed urologist and longtime crusty critic of the American Medical Association; after long illness; in Wausau, Wis. A sharp-tongued crusader, Dr. Schmidt was a dedicated foe of the nice-Nelliness that long hampered treatment of venereal disease, set up the first genitourinary clinic west of the Alleghenies. When he accepted support from an organization that advertised publicly, he was charged by the A.M.A. with unethical conduct and was expelled (1930). He countered bitterly that organized medicine was against low-priced medical care, was backed by half a dozen other medical societies, eventually...
...addition, Nasser is most anxious to establish an Egyptian hegemony among the Arab states. Only the threat of an outside foe can overcome the mutual jealousies that ordinarily tend to separate the Arabs, so once again, Allon said, Nasser must keep before his would-be allies the image of a threatening Israel...
Predictably, congressional reaction ranged from sympathetic understanding to outrage. Arkansas' William Fulbright, second-ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, thought that Britain had simply acted because she was weary of waiting for the U.S. to change its "sterile" China policy. Senate Republican Leader William Knowland, unyielding foe of Peking and long twitted as the ''Senator from Formosa," rose on the Senate floor to warn that the British trade might "some day in the not too distant future strengthen Communist China to the point where it can feel it dares to take the risk of taking...
...fund's unhappy reputation, however undeserved, has been firmly established. It found itself in deep trouble with Congress. Representative Francis Walter wondered out loud whether "it was a friend or foe of America in the struggle against the Communist conspiracy...
...other Guardsmen were hanged at the same hour. All had been convicted as spies last December, accused of having been caught crossing the border with maps and reports of Jordan troop dispositions. Their public execution last week was meant to show 21-year-old King Hussein as the ruthless foe of those who serve hated Israel. It was also a warning to all agents of "outside influences...