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After ten years of breakfast-table chatter with some 15,000 headliners on TV and radio, Tex and Jinx McCrary have learned the ABCs of interviewing. In their latest inquisition, a five-a-week daytime TV show called Close-Up, they have overextended themselves, and the result is a sort...
Furthermore a Congressional committee would probably be headed by Representative Patman of Texas, whose animosity toward the Federal Reserve Board might well turn the investigation into an attack on that agency. The committee would be all too likely to operate as a partisan inquisition, its Democrats seizing the chance to...
*The Knights Templar were organized in 1128 to protect pilgrims going to the Holy Land. With the end of the Crusades, the Templars became less a fighting order of knights than a collection of enormously wealthy bankers. By the use of informers, partisan judges and torture, King Philip and the...
The Revolt. One day in July 1953, a local blacksmith and municipal councilor named Georges Fregeac got a tax notice: contrôle (inspection of his books) next day. Twenty-six other shopkeepers and artisans of Saint-Céré got the same notice. Blacksmith Fregeac was behind in...
Currently before the Massachusetts Senate is an attempt to freeze the recent outpouring of emotion over "jury-tapping" into legislation. The bill, like its national counterpart, would forbid projects such as the University of Chicago was conducting in the Wichita, Kansas, federal courts where secret tape recordings were made of...