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...junta still seems edgy at underground rumblings of Menderes sentiment, so much so that it often confuses free speech with conspiracy. One defense lawyer was jailed last fortnight for remarking in private conversation that evidence seemed lacking to convict any of the 520 defendants unless the verdict was prearranged. Two weeks ago the two lawyers defending Menderes were arrested and accused of planning to circulate a pamphlet arguing his case, and two newspapers were temporarily closed for printing a pro-Democratic declaration. Last week the junta jailed 65 members of the legally banned Democratic Party, including at least one trial...
President-elect Kennedy seemed to promise to make the Treasury a fortress of moderation when, fortnight ago, he plucked Wall Street Republican C. Doug las Dillon out of the Eisenhower State Department for his Treasury Secretary...
...Fortnight ago, accepting Kennedy's offer, Dillon announced that he had first cleared things with both Ike and Dick Nixon and neither objected "if we were to work toward a sound fiscal policy, which is the case." But Doug Dillon had not told the whole story. He got no encouragement at all from Nixon, and Ike twice urged Dillon not to accept without a commitment in writing from Kennedy that he would have a free hand in setting Treasury policy. Dillon answered that he had such an agreement, although not in writing, but seemed to miss the presidential point...
From the charred ruins of the crumpled United Air Lines DC-8 jetliner that crashed into Brooklyn last fortnight, federal investigators last week plucked part of the answer to events that brought on mid-air collision and the world's worst air disaster (TIME, Dec. 26). The story was etched on the metal tape of the crashproof flight recorder that the DC-8-like all jets-carried under federal regulations. Translated, the taped squiggles showed that the jet, bound for New York's Idlewild terminal from Chicago, made a steep descent from...
...lagged so badly in airway control that the jet age has caught the nation dangerously unprepared. Until electronic devices are perfected to control the airways, the FAA must depend on humans to close the gap and to try to eliminate such tragedies as the collision over New York a fortnight ago (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...