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...Under oath before SEC, Silberstein angrily denied any personal profit, said that his operations are perfectly legal methods of buying stock without paying more cash than Penn-Texas can afford. The stock, said he, was bought through the web of intermediaries to 1) avoid pushing the open-market price higher, and 2) get it from sources who would sell it on credit or agree to later delivery and payment. Despite the high premiums, said Silberstein, Penn-Texas bought Fairbanks, Morse stock (now about $57) at an average $52 a share...
...documents sent to unauthorized civilian businessmen and newsmen (as well as-although the charges did not say it-to several Alabama Congressmen), 2) had violated national-security laws by sending three secret documents to Managing Editor Erik Bergaust of Missiles and Rockets magazine, and 3) had lied under oath in denying that he had distributed secret material...
...raid a building where Marilyn Monroe was spending the night (they broke into the wrong apartment). The detective's report, stolen or sold from the files, matched in every detail a leering account of the fiasco in the September 1955 issue of Confidential. (Also called. Sinatra denied under oath that he had participated in the actual raid.) Hollywood brass was so worried by the peephole press, said a third private eye, that major studios once considered raising a $350,000 war chest to fight the scandal magazines...
President Eisenhower took his inaugural oath last week twice within half an hour-or so it looked to millions of viewers on CBS and NBC. The trick was done not by mirrors but their electronic equivalent: the new Videotape Recorder, a 900-lb. machine that captures images as well as sound on magnetic tape and can play them back instantly-or when ever the user wants them-with fidelity approaching the original picture. It was the first time that TV had used Videotape in covering the news, but its experimental use in the few weeks since the networks...
...tasteless accusation as a spur to discontent, all the economic and political bills against the regime suddenly began to fall due. Most alarming, in 98% Roman Catholic Colombia, was the displeasure of the church. Crisanto Cardinal Luque. the saintly and unbending primate, considered the Third Force dangerous and its oath blasphemous, and said so in a pastoral letter. The cost of military extravagance-$250 million in one year alone -was revealed as part of a huge foreign debt (TIME, Oct. 22). Citizens grumblingly yearned for the basic freedom that by and large prevailed under Liberal and Conservative politicians...