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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even more sensitive nerve, the Post ran a Page One series by Staffer Leon Hale on Texas A. & M.'s deep-rooted schism over basic educational policies. Other staff-written stories in the bright, boldly laid-out Post last week ranged from Business Editor Sam Weiner's rundown on the recession's impact to Austin Correspondent Felton West's sympathetic account of a "constructive" program at an upstate reformatory once famed for stern treatment of juvenile inmates...
...Everybody Is Sick." Starkweather's battle started at the one-story frame house in Lincoln's rundown Belmont section, where Caril lived with her mother, stepfather and two-year-old half sister. For several days relatives noticed an unnatural stillness around the house; twice they came to find out why. Caril turned them away at the door, reported the family ill. Detectives called to investigate, found no one home, a note on the door: "Stay away. Everybody is sick with the flu. Miss Bartlett." Still concerned, the family came back. A search turned up not sickness but murder...
...President Fulgencio Batista relaxed his grip on civil rights, prepared to set up what he hoped would be a well-controlled election. And Guatemala, following its second try at presidential elections in three months, hovered at the brink of violence while Congress tried to decide who won. For a rundown of the week's loud bangs and smoldering fuses, see THE HEMISPHERE...
...Young was after power as well as money. While building his personal fortune, he began a battle to win control of Alleghany Corp., the rundown holding company of railroads and real estate put together by Cleveland's famed Van Sweringen brothers. After bitter battles with Wall Street bankers, the Interstate Commerce Commission and some of Alleghany's chief stockholders (Young became known as "the most litigious man in Wall Street"). Young bought heavily into Alleghany in 1937 with $1,000,000 of his own money and $3,000,000 put up by an associate, Allan Kirby...
...squad to break up an international drug cartel. Raw materials: principally opium-smuggled from the Balkans in the wall of the men's room in a day coach. Manufacture: by a derelict chemist in a well-equipped laboratory in the cellar of a shabby frame house in a rundown suburb. Distribution: by courier to retail outlets, by an infinite variety of special arrangements between buyer and seller. Protection: by hired thugs-a small outfit by U.S. standards, but what they lack in numbers they make up in enthusiasm...