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Handing circumloquacious Committee Counsel Ray Jenkins the job of boiling down the 2,000,000-word transcript of the Army-McCarthy squabble to a terse report was more or less like asking a mighty gale to become a zephyr. Last week Acting Committee Chairman Karl Mundt complained that Jenkins' "bulky" summary would take two days just to read, let alone digest. Down in Knoxville, a trifle hurt by his caucus-room pal's reflection on his distilling prowess, Jenkins replied testily: "It was reduced from a 7,424-page document down to 447 pages... accompanied by a brief...
...ready-to-assemble equipment for a cement factory and a steel forging plant in her hold, the 1,275-ton Honduran freighter Omar Babun steamed out of Philadelphia one day last May on a coastwise voyage to Havana. Off the Carolina coast, the Babun ran into a full gale. Her cargo shook loose, tearing away the deck supports and ripping her hull. Captain José Villa ordered the ship beached on the desolate Outer Banks, 25 miles above Cape Hatteras. That night Captain Villa and his crew were taken off on a Coast Guard lifeline, and the Babun was abandoned...
...LINCOLN GALE Rio de Janeiro
...three motion-picture trade groups. In 1951 the House Un-American Activities Committee questioned 18 of the 23 about Communism, and they refused to answer. The other five boldly ignored the committee's subpoenas. All were blacklisted. Each of the 23, including Oscar-winning Actresses Gale Sondergaard and Anne Revere and Oscar-winning Writer Michael Wilson, demanded $2,250,000 in "damages for loss of employment opportunity" and $1,000,000 in punitive damages...
...simper publicly over the beauty of small Prince Charles's dimples, to sigh over the elegance of Prince Philip's taste in haberdashery. When the Queen came home a fortnight ago, after six months' absence on her round-the-world tour, the sighs became a gale. Sample from Author Beverley Nichols: "At last she came to the Duke of Edinburgh and those two adorable children. 'I guess those are the four most important people in the world,' said a voice behind me." All this was too much for some of Her Majesty's most...