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...rose to power, wrested control of the Polish Communist Party from the Stalinists, defied Moscow and won an election. But he inherited a mess: Poland was close to economic bankruptcy and moral anarchy. For all he tried to revive the Poles' fierce national pride and to relax the grip of the police state, Communist Gomulka found no Red formula to solve the economic crisis...
...only halfhearted support to such Hearst causes as I Am An American Day and the career of Marion Davies. But when Marion's brother-in-law was slugged one night, Cop Hater Richardson gleefully pounced on Hearst's notion that law-abiding Los Angeles was in the grip of a crime wave. As a result of City Editor Richardson's fearsome crime statistics (including the number of sidewalk spitters), the Los Angeles police department was doubled at a cost of millions a year. When Hearst talked of promoting him to managing editor, Richardson said: "I would rather...
Bridges, who already has a death grip on Hawaii's economy by his control of the docks and the plantation workers, then added what may yet be the result of Jimmy Hoffa's muscle-flexing: "Hoffa is too tough for the A.F.L.-C.I.O. to handle. They can't keep him in that league...
...define as a shortage of available capital to meet the demands of an expanding economy, is not a peculiar phenomenon of the great American boom. As gauged by interest rates, the U.S. actually has easier money than 23 other major nations. The entire free world is caught in the grip of an unparalleled capital shortage that threatens to crimp the expansion plans of businessmen from Bonn to Bombay...
Since January, Eastland had kept the Administration bill in a tight committee grip. Meanwhile, the House went ahead with its own version, beat off Southern attempts to enfeeble it with amendments (TIME, June 24), finally last week passed it by a vote of 286 to 126. By the usual procedure, under Senate Rule 25, the House's bill seemed headed for the Eastland committee. But California's Minority Leader William F. Knowland was ready with a fast parliamentary ploy: he invoked 80-year-old Rule 14, under which a member can request that a House-passed measure...