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Kefauver's investigations of racketeering and organized crime in 1951 made him a national figure. His true quarrel, though, was not with the gangsters and thugs, freakish vestiges of the Prohibition experiment; it was with a more subtle kind of greed, the greed of huge industrial combines and arrogant bureaucrats masked by respectability, or worse, by legality. He never accepted the idea that wealth and power are synonomus with virtue, and he fought monopoly and privilege on every level. On the issue of civil rights, he displayed his customary courage and independence...
...boon to small businessmen who had neither the money nor the volume to afford bigger, four-wheeled trucks. Toyo Kogyo switched to making rifles and airplane parts in World War II, escaped serious damage from Hiroshima's Abomb, which fell only three miles from its plant, because of freakish blast waves. The firm was too small to attract the attention of U.S. trustbusters at war's end, and quickly resumed production...
...cold wave that swept into the South and Southwest this winter has produced some chilly news for U.S. housewives: they are paying more for citrus fruits and juices, and probably will pay more for a long time. Because of the damage to groves and fresh fruit caused by the freakish cold, the price of oranges is already up from 20? to 24? a pound, and the price of frozen orange juice has jumped from 20? to 30? a can. If the housewife has cause to complain, the citrus industry's laments are somewhat muted. For an industry chronically beset...
Medieval Drama 'Freakish...
...Middle Ages, he said, made drama "freakish polemic in the name of religion." Its only justification was the moral betterment of man, an aim he called "antagonistic to the tragedy." Schrade cast doubt on "what usefulness could ever lie in telling the stories" in which "nothing but horror remained...