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...weeks and a day later the Curb Communism Committee's recommendations went before the Committee on Constitutional Law. The Special Committee's Vice-Chairman, Representative Michael J. Batal, further elaborated on the philosophy behind the spate of red bills. "The purpose of this is that if any person is found guilty, he could not perform any of his teaching duties. This would shut him up until he was found guilty...
...baiters tried last year with a spate of bills, all of which ended up tucked away in a committee file. But with the coming of Fall, the seasonal outcry against The Great Conspiracy forced at least two of them out in the open again. The Ober Law has gone through the House and now lies before the Senate; the Dorgon-McCarthy Bill is still in the House...
...best movie fantasies ever made. "Stairway to Heaven" is about a wartime British flyer who is shuttled about a bit by heavenly bureaucracy; it combines quietly plausible acting with some spectacularly implausible technicolor photography. Kim Hunter is very pretty, and Stairway's heavenly stairway is one of a spate of remarkable sets. It is no movie to miss
...understand the spirit behind Tom Pendergast's card is to understand the ever-mounting spate of scandals in Washington. Most of the men accused, including Bill Boyle, are sincerely indignant at the charges against them. They have done nothing that they consider wrong, nothing that was not approved or tolerated in the political environment where they learned the game, nothing that was not done in Washington years ago. Public criticism of their actions strikes them as strange and unfair...
...Whip Hand. Smarting under their forced public admission that they had violated the neutral zone, the Reds launched-both officially and unofficially-a spate of charges that the U.N. was cheating too. They complained that U.N. planes bound for North Korean targets had flown over Kaesong (true, but not covered by any agreement); that allied gunfire was audible in Kaesong (true, but the guns were being fired outside the neutral zone); that the allies were using poison gas (untrue). Their most serious charge was that one of their white-flagged truce trucks had been fired on by allied planes...