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...hundreds of East Germans were being snatched up and "resettled" in small isolated towns in the interior for "work education." Reason: they were suspected of planning to escape to the West or of encouraging others to do so. Hordes of uniformed "Free German Youth" youngsters were sent out to inspect every East German's rooftop television and F.M. aerial, tear down those that were pointed toward the stations of Wrest Berlin or West Germany. "Anyone listening to Western radio or television broadcasts is a traitor," cried an editorial in Leipzig's Sächsische Zeitung...
...April in the Senate (and by New York Democrat Emanuel Celler in the House), the bill is a shotgun blast against everything that Kefauver dislikes in the pharmaceutical industry. It would require drug manufacturers to get licenses from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and give FDA power to inspect and close their plants. It would prohibit marketing of new drugs until they have been proved effective and make FDA the judge of effectiveness (it is now empowered to pass only on their safety, purity and toxicity). Under the bill, FDA could deny a license for a new drug...
Payola & Whisky. Eli G. Travis, a free-spending contractor, admitted that he had lavished a small fortune on friendly city officials who helped him to get contracts and did not inspect his work too closely. On one big job-$1,000,000 worth of repairs for an elevated transit line-city officials claim that he successfully swindled the public out of $800,000. In his various deals with city officials, said Travis, he had "paid out at least $75,000 in payola." Travis testified that the chief of the Division of Architecture and Engineering and a former secretary had received...
...liner Queen Elizabeth and the start of their long voyage home. Behind them lay a 19-day guided tour of the U.S., past such assorted landmarks as Disneyland, Ben Blue's Santa Monica nightclub, a bank in Des Moines, more newspaper plants than they probably cared to inspect, and the President of the United States...
...such, Kaye might be expected to drink like a general, inspect the troops, and woo the old man's beautiful wife (Dana Wynter). Instead, he just seems to be longing wistfully-with the audience-for the fun that used to be. The script offers only an occasional chuckle. General: "Hurry up; General Eisenhower is waiting." Danny: "Well, tell him not to. I don't do him." When he is captured, Danny gets a reel and a half of pantomime in which to play a Gestapo agent, a Luftwaffe pilot, a fur-wrapped matron and Marlene Dietrich (singing Cocktails...