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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Goldfish Bowl. Every labor organization must file comprehensive reports with the U.S. Secretary of Labor on the working of its constitution and bylaws as well as on all financial transactions, including large payments and loans to officers and staffers. Similar reports are required from management on all payments to union officers and to labor-relation consultants. Maximum penalty: $10,000 fine and a year in prison...
...garrison, dug in on a hillside above the village, consisted of 70 regulars of the royal Laotian army, 100 home guards and 25 counter-guerrillas who are called maquis by French-educated Laotians. For 25 miles along the western bank of the Nam Ma river, there were similar garrisons under the control of battalion headquarters at Muong Het. eight miles from the Vietnamese frontier. And they were backed up by six other battalions which had been rushed to the defense of Samneua province...
...revolution's anti-U.S. slant. Sticking to the new tough line, the State Department last week decided to lift the citizenship of a key Castro aide, Ohio-born Major William Morgan (TIME, Aug. 24), on the grounds that he is a member .of a t foreign army. Similar action against about a dozen other U.S.-born Castro soldiers will follow...
...Surgeon Segal found the heartworms nestled together in the pulmonary artery. Then he operated on live dogs from the pound. Again the worms were neatly concentrated, so he was able to cut out the mass and restore full blood flow through the artery. The operation, says Dr. Segal, is similar to that used to correct stenosis (narrowing) of the pulmonary artery in children. The work, therefore, affords valuable practice and may turn up information of value in human surgery. Since he rates it as research and not a medical service, Dr. Segal collects no fee even when the patient...
...PRACTICE LANDINGS with two engines cut have been ruled out by Federal Aviation Agency in hopes of preventing crashes similar to first fatal Boeing 707 accident (five men dead) last month on Long Island. Under new ruling, airline crews may cut two engines only at altitude...