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...Hardest Blow. At the President's further urging, the Republican policy committee of the Senate brought out suggestions for changes in committee rules, designed to restrict McCarthy's reckless hunt for headlines. The changes-chiefly designed to prevent McCarthy from conducting one-man hearings-might not be enough to hold him in line, but they were important because they showed the attitude of the responsible Republican leadership. Sound, clear, public voice was given to that attitude by Vermont's Republican Ralph Flanders in a speech on the Senate floor (see Col. 2) and by Pres ident Eisenhower...
...became vulnerable to seasonal showers, and editors began to wear galoshes in the building, the more perspicacious Poonsters decided the roof was probably leaking. In an attempt to divert a disastrous spring flood, editors are pushing workers to their utmost. The original tiles are thrown at passers-by with reckless abandon, and now cold, dull slates are replacing the expensive Flemish tile roofing...
...Civil Aeronautics Board examiner lifted the private-pilot's license of Radio-TV's Arthur Godfrey for six months. The examiner found that Godfrey, flying "in a careless and reckless manner," deliberately buzzed the defenseless control tower at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport last January...
...even his foes ever accused him of the slightest personal corruption. He is polite, considerate and sincere, but his geniality is not softness. Once he had an army driver executed at the very spot in downtown Taipei where a pedestrian had been killed through the soldier's reckless driving. Chen's mother scolded him for so severe a sentence. "I must enforce discipline," he replied...
Admittedly, these restrictions may slow committee action, and, in rare cases, subject investigators to longwinded protests. Put into effect, however, they will not only protect the witness, but also transform reckless inquisition into constructive investigation...