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...playground for fun-loving celebrities and tired millionaires. In recent years, it has become the favorite retreat of top-ranking military men, too-so much so that at times the Cotton Bay Club has looked more like a tropical officers' club than the gilt-edged resort it is. Last week the House Armed Services Committee revealed that a lot of the high brass have been relaxing on the Cotton Bay Club's palm-fringed golf course as freeloading guests of Baltimore's Martin Co.. manufacturers of military aircraft and missiles (Vanguard, Titan, Mace). In the past...
Appearing last September before a closed session of the House committee, George Bunker, Martin's board chairman, vehemently urged an open session, just as vigorously denied that there was anything unethical about paying the expenses of the officers. "I cannot conceive." said he, "that anyone could possibly believe men of their character and responsibilities could be improperly influenced by playing golf with me on Eleuthera." Another witness testified that the Internal Revenue Service had disallowed Martin's request to list the $18,000 in expense accounts as a business expense and a tax deduction...
Kept aglow by the hot breath of clerical argument, the sputtering dynamite charge of birth control-tossed gingerly from hand to hand among presidential candidates-last week landed in the middle of Dwight Eisenhower's news conference. What was the President's reaction, a newsman asked, to a recommendation made last July by a special presidential committee chaired by William H. Draper Jr., investment banker and industrialist? The Draper committee's recommendation: the U.S.. as part of its foreign aid program, should heed requests for assistance from nations trying to curb runaway population. Mindful...
...campaign strategy of Adlai Stevenson, phantom candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination (TIME, Oct. 5), was sadly reaffirmed by another Democratic hopeful, who went to Stevenson to ask for his endorsement and anonymously told about the outcome last week. Adlai replied that 1) he would endorse no one, at least not until after the presidential primaries; 2) he will not withdraw his own name from speculation, but 3) he will make no overt effort to obtain the Democratic nomination. In Cheyenne, Wyo., Democratic Pacemaker John Kennedy tut-tutted such coy stratagems. Said he: "The primaries are going to be decisive...
...Earl" Long, three-time Louisiana Governor and heir to the political dynasty founded by Brother Huey, last week slid toward oblivion as the reigning force in Louisiana politics. Barred by law from succeeding himself and harried by doctors as he was chased in and out of mental hospitals (TIME, June 15 et seq.), Ole Earl, 64, tried to get himself nominated as next Lieutenant Governor in the free-for-all primary, put a hand-picked successor in as Governor. He cagily passed a bill to change the Democratic primary date from traditional Tuesday to work-free Saturday, thus tried...