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...when Britain's Eden and France's Mollet put out feelers for a face-saving Washington summit conference, the White House was pointedly not listening. And when Swiss President Markus Feldmann proposed at week's end that the Big Four get together (with India's Nehru) in Switzerland, the President politely replied that the U.S. was conducting its crisis diplomacy through the U.N., and "I believe that the interests of all will be best served by carrying these initiatives to a successful conclusion...
...colt gunning for Florida's $112,900 Gulfstream Park Handicap and a purse that would push his total earnings past Citation's alltime record of $1,085,760. Brookmeade Stable's pace-setting Sailor had more than enough to hold off Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Markus' Mielleux in the stretch drive. Third: Alfred G. Vanderbilt's Find. Nashua, under top weight of 129 Ibs. was never in contention, finished fifth...
Mayock hustled off to Washington and had a personal chat with Treasury Secretary John Snyder. Six weeks later, after Snyder prodded his underlings, Lasdon got a favorable ruling and Mayock got $65,000 cash. He split $35,000 of it among himself, Markus and Solomon, took the promised $30,000 to Louis Johnson, later Harry Truman's Defense Secretary, then chairman of the Democratic Finance Committee. "I went to the Democratic National Committee and unloaded it on Louis Johnson's desk," Mayock testified...
Mayock got around that obstacle by simply handing several acquaintances (including Markus and Solomon) cash in exchange for checks made out to the Democratic National Committee. That was, he admitted last week, a "close violation" of the Hatch...
Special Speed-Up. When Markus and Solomon appeared before the subcommittee, they admitted arranging a meeting between Mayock and Lasdon, but they flatly denied getting cut in on the fee. The astonished subcommittee promptly asked the Justice and Treasury Departments to find out which of the three witnesses had committed perjury and which of them had cheated on his 1948 income...