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...California citrus grower, I am in a position to know that nowhere in the world is the consumer so thoroughly protected from harmful residual chemicals as in the U.S. A pox on authors who will pervert the truth for a few lousy bucks...
...guilty to running arms to Israel, was fined $10,000, finally had his civil rights restored last year by President Kennedy. He long used the Sun in a vendetta against the late Senators Pat McCarran and Joseph McCarthy, once wrote a column in which he called McCarthy a "disreputable pervert." In taking on Sawyer, Greenspun would have some embarrassing Sun paragraphs to live down. Wrote he about the Governor in 1959: "He has exceeded our most extravagant hopes and predictions. Grant Sawyer is a man among men." Greenspun also gave his views last spring on newspaper owners who go into...
...best efforts? If in fact we are as infested with these rascals as Mr. Hoover intimates, it might occur to many people that the country needs a more efficient spy swatter. There is, Mr. Hoover says, an advance detachment of Communists within our borders with the 'capacity to pervert our thinking and destroy the spiritual supports which form the foundation of our freedom.' This is sententious poppycock. Our institutions are nowhere nearly so fragile as Mr. Hoover thinks they...
...speech Thurmond charged that official Administration censors had deleted passages of military officers' speeches "in order to blunt, confuse and pervert the words of those who would inform the public just what the cold war is about...
With such views of fact and history, the ultras are able to find plots just about everywhere. According to some of their literature, recent revisions of the Bible are the works of Communists who want to pervert the Gospel. The Canadian Intelligence Service, a right-wing outfit that sells a newsletter south of the border, warns that mental health programs are designed to remold men's minds and put those who resist in the booby hatch. As one of the sins of the Kennedy Administration. We, the People! claims that "All FBI agents have been ordered to cease their...