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...villages and loot the creaky buses that bounce along the region's rutted roads. There are at least 3,000 guerrillas, and the villagers on whom they prey call them San Sonnim ("Mountain Guests"). Until last week many of them were devoted henchmen of Lee-Hyun Sang, a plump, mustached Marxist...
Biased Reporter. The Time's mourning grain of sand turned out last week to be plump, bearded Dr. Eugene Horsfall-Ertz, 53, jovial headmaster of a boys' school in Sussex. Dr. Horsfall-Ertz, whose hobby is history, has set himself the sizable task of cleaning up Richard's bad reputation. Like some other scholars, Horsfall-Ertz has come to the conclusion that Richard has been grossly maligned by history, that he did not murder the little princes, and that, all in all, he was one of the best, kindest and wisest kings in England's history...
...carbines. When they had completed their circle, at a prearranged moment, five sedans carrying reinforcements rattled down a dirt road to a point 20 yards from the cabin. Slowly the G-men converged on the cabin, covered the two sunbathers, routed out two more men and a pretty, plump girl. There was no resistance, no gunburst, only the sound of the soughing pines. Thus last week the FBI ended its biggest manhunt in years...
...testimony by and about the Rothschilds took McCarthy to an obvious question: Why hadn't Rothschild been fired from the GPO long before? The FBI had a plump file on him, but he passed two loyalty screenings and stayed in his job. GPO officials explained that the loyalty board did not believe the charges, and that Rothschild himself denied under oath in 1948 that he was a Communist. Had the loyalty board called in any of the witnesses named in the FBI file? No. "It is not customary to call any witnesses except those requested by the accused...
Although the C.I.O.,. like the A.F.L., has sponsored occasional radio shows to plump for favored candidates or to berate certain legislation, its Vandercook program (annual cost: some $500,000; stations signed: 128) will be its first big-time use of radio. Last year it sponsored 13 weeks of quarter-hour TV shows (Issues of the Day) to boom some of its favorite themes (civil rights, public housing). Issues was a toe-wetting 'operation that gave the C.I.O. some experience for a' once-a-month television show now in preparation and scheduled to start this fall (annual outlay...