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...evidence was supplied by Dr. John N. Snyder of Catonsville, Md., who treated five cases in a single family. First victim was a thoroughly scratched ten-year-old boy, who went to the doctor's office with a sore throat, swelling on one side of his face and neck, and enlarged lymph glands. The boy recovered in a couple of days without treatment. Next came his three-month-old baby brother, also suffering from a swollen neck, fever, and a lump bigger than a golf ball at the base of his neck. The baby had apparently never been scratched...
...discredit the President. They sold off huge chunks of stock, prices went way down, as was planned, but then things got out of control." California's Maurice Soble, 67, a retired toy-store owner, had it all figured out: "They're doing it because they're sore at the President for refusing to knuckle under on steel prices. It's a conspiracy, you can be sure of that...
...before. After all, said Salinger, the boss "can read just so many papers. We get five New York newspapers now,* and that gives us quite a spread of opinion. In fact, the people around here have been reading the Herald Tribune less and less." Was the President sore at the Trib? Well, no, said Salinger. Then he noticed that no one seemed to believe...
...President was sore at the Trib, all right, said Salinger, but that had nothing to do with it: "If we were to cancel subscriptions to all the papers who were opposed to the Administration, it would be kind of light reading around here." Well then, he was asked, why did Kennedy blow his top? "I think the culmination came," Salinger went on, "with the disclosure that the Herald Tribune completely ignored the stockpiling investigation." He was referring to a leftover Eisenhower Administration scandal, in which a copper company got a $6,000,000 windfall. Salinger was wrong, argued Trib Reporter...
...journalism was no get-rich-quick scheme for skinning the big-city rubes. Billie Sol was out to get even with some local types. He had been beaten in a school-board election last spring, and it was the Independent that had helped to beat him. Billie Sol was sore; he had wanted to get on that board to keep the boys and girls in Pecos High from swimming in the same pool or dancing on the premises. He retaliated by buying his own printing press. The first thing anybody in Pecos knew, he had hired 38 newsmen at handsome...