Word: mends
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...Senator Lyndon Johnson's Preparedness ("Watchdog") subcommittee got curious. Army Secretary Frank Pace also got busy. Last week he notified Senator Johnson that he had relieved Colonel Derby, that efforts would be made to recover any money "improperly spent"; and that Atlas Constructors had been ordered to mend their ways...
...mend after a hernia operation in a New Orleans hospital, veteran Cinemactor Gary Cooper had plans involving his old friend and hunting companion Ernest Hemingway: "We've been talking about several stories for possible use in the future. He looks fine when he shaves. He lives pretty sanely...
...canvassed a large group of patients, and all too often found the whispers justified. Now, in any case where gouging is suspected, the doctor's bill is audited before he gets paid. The trustees hope that, now that the racket has been exposed, the guilty doctors will mend their ways. C.P.S. would prefer not to sue them, but if it has to, it will...
Umbrellas to Mend. While the Commerce Committee was giving them what they wanted, a Judiciary subcommittee headed by Brooklyn's anti-Fair Trade Emanuel Celler held hearings on a similar bill. Witness Rivers Peterson, managing director of the National Retail Hardware Association, cried that the small retailer is entitled to protection "from exploitation on the part of the predatory price-cutter," just as labor is protected by minimum-wage laws. Retorted the American Farm Bureau Federation's Matt Trigg: Such devices provide "an umbrella for the inefficient" and are inconsistent with a free, competitive economy. Echoed...
...gave him 25 years at hard labor. Schleicher went to work driving rivets. He spoiled a rivet and a guard hit him with a chain. It broke Schleicher's nose, jaw and-ankle. The Russians sent him to a hospital, and when his ankle refused to mend, they shipped him home. Schleicher got back to Germany in 1948 to find that his wife had remarried and that he was officially dead. He retired to another hospital to have his leg amputated...