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Such is the regard in which he is held in the Senate that he is continually nominated for key bipartisan jobs-flying around the world to inspect World War II battle points, skillfully presiding over the explosive, eight-week Senate investigation into Harry Truman's firing of Douglas MacArthur, etc. Twice-in 1951 and 1953-the Senate Democratic leadership was offered him, and twice he gracefully declined. "I'm more concerned with my own thinking," he said, "than with the Democratic Party nationally...
...Judiciary Committees of both Houses rushed through an Administration "must" bill to ease the effect of the Supreme Court's Jencks case ruling that defendants have a right to inspect FBI files relating to testimony by a Government witness (TIME, June 17)-a decision that, said Attorney General Herbert Brownell, had brought about "a serious crisis in law enforcement." Under the Administration measure, the trial judge would examine the FBI material requested by the defense, turn over only the parts he considers relevant...
...even more disturbing. Grazing animals skim the fallout from large areas of grass, and it concentrates in their flesh and milk. Sea animals do the equivalent. Biologists fear that many such concentrating mechanisms may exist unsuspected. This is one reason why the U.S. Public Health Service is starting to inspect U.S. milk for undue radioactivity. West Germany is doing the same, and the Japanese are old hands at detecting radioactive fish...
Following the Budd Schulberg story on which the film is based, Kazan follows the great man from a jailhouse to a penthouse, and the trip is sometimes fun. Kazan takes time to inspect such scenic wonders of TV as the reason-why-sell, the inverse commercial, the collective think, the built-in crowd. He also provides some hilarious examples of TV shoptalk ("Great show. J.B." "Ye-e-es, I think it had size"). And all the while he is sinking the oyster knife into his victim, who loves nothing in the world so much as power-above all the power...
...need any special order to enforce the law," declared Police Chief Patrick J. Ready yesterday. But Councillor A1 Vellucci, who introduced the order at Monday night's Council meeting, threatened to form a "vigilante committee of secret friends," to inspect stores and recommend action to the district attorney if the order is not carried...