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When would-be Automaker Preston Tucker and seven associates went on trial three months ago for mail fraud conspiracy and violation of securities laws, the Federal Government marshaled an impressive amount of evidence. It brought into the Chicago court 73 witnesses and 1,000 documents in an attempt to prove that Tucker and associates had used $28 million raised in sales of stock and dealer franchises "for [their own] personal benefit and profit." The advertising of the Tucker Corp. was called a "pack of lies." None of the 34 cars made, said Govern" ment attorneys, had contained...
...letter received by the Harvard Radio Network yesterday, Wayne, Coy chairman of the FCC, revealed that "steps are being taken to draft proposed rules which would govern such low power broadcasting operations in the event the Commission found such operations to be in the public interest...
Aiken termed Skinner's book ". . . a political tract rather than a work of art." He asserted the basic fallacy in Skinner's argument was the pre-suppositions that the social scientists who would govern the Utopian state would be men of good will as well as men of knowledge...
...couple of new states. By an overwhelming vote (48 to 1, with nine abstentions) the Assembly decided, after weeks of bickering and Soviet-bloc obstruction, that the former Italian colony of Libya (pop. 1,120,000) shall be independent in 1952. A U.N. commissioner and advisory council will govern the country until then...
...recovery program had prevented disorder, maybe even revolution in the U.S. Churchill observed that Russia's one-party system made politics easy for Stalin, and Uncle Joe allowed that one party was a great convenience. Perhaps to cheer Winnie, Joe also predicted that Labor would never govern in England...