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Fleabite Paper. In the heady '30s, Stone belonged to the Socialist Party. He insists, "I never was a Communist. But I was a Popular Fronter. I was then and I am now. I'd be prepared to join with anyone on the left, including the Communists, in the struggle against fascism." He started his sheet in 1953 after serving successively on such sinking leftist ships as New York's PM, and the Star and Compass. Deafness (subsequently cured by surgery) made it difficult for him to get much out of press conferences, so he turned to reading...
Greece tried out still another Prime Minister last week. It was far from clear whether the new man could solve the country's six-week-old political deadlock. He was 58-year-old Elias Tsirimokos, a onetime Socialist and Communist-fronter who only a few days before had deserted King Constantine's enemy, ex-Premier George Papandreou, to accept the King's invitation to form a government...
...better; anthropology has grown from nothing to good. Last year Litchfield won faculty respect when the state legislature, which supplies 16% of Pitt's budget, scented "subversive" activities at the university. Litchfield spent $100,000 investigating the case of a professor accused of being a Communist fronter, cleared him in an eloquent brief defending Pitt's inalienable right to "free inquiry." Sensitive to criticism. Litchfield is given to hiring pollsters to gauge Pitt's public "image." The Madison Avenue approach appalls academic purists. But it turns out that among the leading citizenry of Pittsburgh, 65% now feel...
This has landed Socialist Mollet, who is no Popular Fronter,* in the bear's hug embrace of the Soviets. At a Moscow reception last week Nikita Khrushchev turned jubilantly to Foreign Minister Molotov and said: "Do you remember how we defended this [disarmament] position at Geneva and then did not insist on it when we saw that it was irreconcilable with the Western stand?" Without giving Molotov time to answer, Khrushchev added: "Now Mollet is saying what we said...
Basically, Oppenheimer's case was what he had outlined in his earlier, eloquent statement to the AEC (TIME, June 14). He had been a "fellow traveler," an active Communist fronter from late 1936 until around 1942, but all that was behind him. He had been a loyal citizen, working hard for his Government ever since he went to work on the atomic bomb in 1942. To support their case, Oppenheimer's lawyers had called in an impressive list of character witnesses. Notable on the list were men who had worked above Oppenheimer, including some who had a measure...