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Witt's End. Matusow went to El Paso to testify that he had lied when he helped to convict Clinton Jencks, an official of the Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers' Union, which was thrown out of the C.I.O. in 1950 for being Communist-dominated. On the strength of Matusow's recanting, Jencks, who had been convicted of falsifying a non-Communist affidavit, was requesting a new trial. The motion was being heard before Federal District Judge Robert Thomason, a onetime Democratic Congressman with a reputation as a liberal and a first-class lawyer. Judge Thomason changed the situation...
...actually used this court of law as a forum for the purpose of calling public attention to a book, purportedly written by Matusow, entitled False Witness. This court finds the fact to be that as early as Sept. 21, 1954, responsible officials of the International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers . . . subsidized the writing and publication of this book ... I find that Matusow willfully . . . lent himself to this evil scheme for money and for notoriety...
Inspecting imported wheat last week, the manager of a Brazilian flour mill caught a glint of metal, plucked out the hammer-and-sickle button of a Russian army uniform. How the button got mixed with the grain, no one knew, but it provided a brassy accent for a plain fact: Latin American trade with Iron Curtain countries is rising. Items...
...fault. When he first arrives at Clyde, Mass, from Denver, he is a likable youngster. But he is quickly made to feel that he and his parents are nomads from the great American desert west of Boston. His father, a brilliant, roving engineer, works at the Harcourt Mill. The Harcourts are a fine old feudal Yankee clan, and they soon inspire young Willis with the desire to be something he is not. He imitates their manners and their games, even buys (secondhand) their kind of clothes. But he can never really relax with them-not even when he takes...
Emily Postscripts. Inevitably, the day comes when Willis Wayde's growing firm takes over the Harcourt Mill in a merger...