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...investigators feared that some sex perverts would inevitably go undetected in Government jobs, but most federal bureaus and agencies, they concluded sharply, had been lazy or downright negligent about cleaning house. The Senators recommended tighter laws and harsher punishment for sex perversion in the District of Columbia, more intensive examination of job applicants...
...chairman of East Germany's State Control Commission. Perscheid quoted Lange as telling him: "The prosecution and court are our mouthpieces. What we blow into them from the back must come out in front like notes from a flute." Shortly before Perscheid fled, Lange dictated a new and harsher charge sheet, threatened that "the judge who doesn't rule the way we want will be arrested in court as an Anglo-American agent...
...Times had no solution. Nor did newsmen have any solution to the problem of getting the news in the face of such censorship and of even harsher attempts to terrorize them. Fortnight ago, Czechoslovakia indicted able Times Correspondent Dana Adams Schmidt (along with 20 other Westerners) for espionage and subversion. After dutifully filing a straight story to the Times on the charges (which he denied), Schmidt fled to the U.S. zone of Germany. That left only three regular Western correspondents in Prague, all of them exposed to the kind of attack that had forced able Reporter Schmidt to leave...
...midshipman's punishment would have been much harsher if Cook had found more proof. Nonetheless, there were extenuating circumstances. The Endeavour was about 98 ft. long, and the 90 or so men aboard her had been away from home port for almost two years. It was not surprising that they sometimes got on each other's nerves. More noteworthy was the fact that, on each of his three long voyages of Pacific exploration, able, sharp-eyed Captain Cook ran the efficient, generally happy ship that...
Organizer of the strike, 37-year-old Arturo Galavotti, is boss of Modena's labor and of its Communist Party. A townsman calls him "one of the harshest among the harsher members of the Communist Party." Galavotti has been disrupting Industrialist Orsi's factories with "hiccup strikes" (successive stoppages in one department after another). Last month Orsi closed the foundry, blamed rising production costs. At Galavotti's insistence, he offered to reopen this month. Orsi refused, however, to rehire 30 workers whom he called Communist troublemakers. Galavotti turned down the offer. Orsi stood pat, refused to postpone...