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Joe McCarthy's reaction to the report was McCarthy-like: It was "a new low in dishonesty and smear." He had labels for the subcommittee members: the Democrats, Missouri's Senator Thomas C. Hennings Jr. and Arizona's Carl Hayden, were "lackeys" of Harry Truman; the Republican...
The report resulted in three main changes in the curriculum. First, many of the notorious guts were stiffened. Secondly, in order to discourage students from getting their degree in three years extra tuition charges were made for all courses over four. The third change was a set of new regulations...
Coursing around the country in stolen cars, he kidnaped nine people, killed six of them. He threw five of his victims-Carl Mosser of Atwood, Ill., his wife and three children-down a well in Joplin. He shot the sixth. Seattle Salesman Robert Dewey, on the Southern California desert. He...
Collective Punishment. But he also had a police job to do. He had been in Malaya only two months when Communist guerrillas ambushed and killed a British patrol of twelve men near the small town of Tanjong Malim. Templer arrived in his armored car, glared at the town elders over...
"Americans don't have the guts to be bullfighters." This remark, tossed off in a Mexico City café, infuriated a young poster artist with flaming red hair and a temper to match. He flared back: "Americans have more guts in their little fingers than the rest of the...