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Flushed with power, the man next door might overlook some noisy partners: giant pressure groups that spend millions yearly to influence public representatives and the public mind. As it happens, the biggest lobby of them all is the very group paying out $1,110,000 on this "National Education Campaign"--the American Medical Association. Listed as "top spender" under the Lobby Registration Act, the AMA spread $2 million and 55 million propaganda leaflets last year in the fight against the President's national-health program. With the largest delegation and the most envied slush fund in Washington, organized medicine...
Among the bronzed, broad-shouldered young men who turned up for the National A.A.U. swimming championships in Seattle last week, slender, mild-mannered John Birnie Marshall was easy to overlook. But there was no missing Australian-born John Marshall when he uncoiled for the mile race. For 20 minutes, the biggest splash in U.S. swimming since Johnny Weissmuller had spectators, officials and competitors watching hardly anybody else...
Elliott Perkins '23, whose Georgian style Lowell will overlook the new club, issued a "no comment" last night on the proposed architecture of the clubhouse...
...rain-dashed afternoon in the spring of 1947 a lean, tense-looking man in his mid-30s walked into Manhattan's Edison Hotel, just off Broadway, and registered for a room. He specified that it must overlook 47th Street. Once upstairs, he walked quickly to the window, looked down on the street below, satisfied himself that the view was right, then turned away and began to pace the floor, chainsmoking cigarettes. Finally he settled down to a vigil at the window. With alert brown eyes he watched the bustling traffic on the sidewalks. How many of the passers...
...TIME THIS ISSUE REACHES our readers they will no doubt have changed their addresses-for the better, we hope. In the excitement that . . . will accompany the destruction of our planet, there will be a strong tendency to overlook the cause of the catastrophe and a failure to fix responsibility . . . Until we have a thorough investigation, voters are bound to wonder . . . Was it collision or collusion...