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...notably present during most of the long, disputatious hearings. Appearing as a witness armed with a 42-page attack, Anderson accused Strauss of practicing "deception," telling "unqualified falsehoods" and creating "myths" about his achievements. Having hurled his thunderbolts, Anderson took a seat close behind Wyoming's Gale McGee, a committee member, fed him information and questions to use against Strauss. A liberal with an instinctive dislike for Hoover-Taft Republican Strauss, sometime History Professor McGee, 44, turned out to be Anderson's most eager recruit to the anti-Strauss camp...
...Strauss's testimony is sprinkled with half truths and even lies. But the ammunition is small-bore stuff, proving only that under rough and hostile questioning, Strauss can be evasive, quibblesome and not above beclouding a point with big handfuls of debater's dust. Example, one that Gale McGee considers especially damaging to Strauss...
...householder a heady sense of power for as little as $1,500. Today, some 5,000,000 Americans own outboards v. 1,300,000 in 1947. Last year Outboard Marine, a combine that makes well over half of all outboard motors in the U.S. through its Johnson. Evinrude and Gale divisions, produced $131 million in outboards. Chris-Craft's Harsen Smith does not consider the outboards a threat. Outboards. he feels, are to inboard boats as farm teams are to baseball's major-league teams. Says he: "It's the nature of boating to step...
...right." He read off her horse-kick comment, argued that it showed he was right all along about the "emotional instability on the part of this slanderer." Three Democratic Senators who had voted for Mrs. Luce-Ohio's Frank Lausche, Texas' Ralph Yarborough, Wyoming's Gale McGee-solemnly announced that if they had known of her comment beforehand, they would have voted against...
...rite of shooting the dogs, the terror of being dragged off the ice by vicious 1,100-Ib. sea leopards that could leap from the water and catch a running man. The expedition physicist scrawled in his tattered diary: "A bug on a single molecule of oxygen in a gale of wind would have about the same chance of predicting where he was likely to finish...