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...Have a Right to Object." In crossexamination, McCarthy bided his time, feeling his way. Then, with ten minutes to go before the lunchtime recess, he pounced, not on the witness but on Samuel Reber, the general's brother and former Deputy U.S. High Commissioner in Germany. Joe wanted to know if General Reber was aware that his brother "repeatedly had attacked" Cohn and Schine and had them shadowed while they were on their sleuthing expedition through Europe last year. General Reber said he had not known it and, in any event, it would not have affected his testimony...
...middle of my question." McClellan retorted: "I do not want you testifying . . . unless you want to take the witness stand, and I do not mind your saying it under oath." McCarthy, turning on a smile, muttered that Jenkins' original objection was "perhaps well taken"-and proceeded until recess time along a slightly modified line...
...Roaring Lions. At his usual corner table in the Carroll Arms Hotel, during the luncheon recess, McCarthy gulped down a Manhattan, a slice of lamb and coffee. His suit coat was off, his shirt clung to him, soaked through. The going had been hot & heavy, and there was more, much more, to come...
...tempered. Half the ministers were on their feet at once; the several Gaullists and so-called "dissident Gaullists" huddled in a corner to consider whether to withdraw from the Laniel government, which would almost certainly bring it down. Corniglion-Molinier came back to the table and asked for a recess until 5 p.m. so that the matter might be discussed with party leaders. "Not even five minutes!" snapped Bidault. "This text must be signed today, because it must be presented to the House of Commons before it goes on holiday...
...when he went back to Edinburgh for his Ph.D. But relaxation, social or otherwise, is not one of Pit Van Dusen's talents. Once, when his friend Erdman Harris and another classmate with some extra cash planned to visit Rome for a splurge during a winter recess, 23-year-old Van Dusen heard about it and quickly revised the plans...