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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Short Walk. Try as he might to be the old McCarthy, Joe could not seem to escape the spell of the cold eye. At one point he was arguing that the committee should accept in evidence the notorious 2¼ page summary of an FBI document (which Joe had produced at the Army-McCarthy hearing-TIME, May 17). North Carolina's Sam Ervin interrupted him in midsentence. "May I finish, please?" McCarthy asked Chairman Watkins. Watkins replied bluntly: "You may when Senator Ervin has stated his position." "O.K.," snapped...
...even in the bureaucratic honeycombs of Washington, D.C.) is the balance between pay, position, privilege and office furniture so carefully monitored as it is in West Germany's orderly civil service. Last week, Adenauer's pfennig-pinching Minister of Finance Fritz Schaffer issued a directive to spell the whole thing out in precise. Teutonic detail. Herr Schaffer decreed a maximum expenditure of $60 to furnish a typist's office, $140 for "experts working in special fields," and about $285 for the office appointments of a department head...
...appears, and asks him to bring some pottery to her house. He follows. She brings him tea; she offers him love. He cannot resist. "I never imagined such pleasures existed!" he cries. "You are my slave," she murmurs. At long last, a Buddhist priest frees the potter from her spell, and he turns back homeward. When he reaches home, he finds his wife dead. Only her spirit is there to comfort him, saying, "Go back to work...
...wrote sonnets, "mostly to lampoon rival football teams," and read avidly-Shaw, Shakespeare, Havelock Ellis, Karl Marx. Then he became a schoolteacher, wrote some plays with Freudian themes, and directed his sonnets at Mya Yi, the school board chairman's daughter, with whom he later eloped. Under the spell of a learned Rangoon editor named U Ba Cho, the young playwright got interested in both Buddhism and his country's fight for independence. The zealotry of his politics and religion astonished his friends...
...course of questioning a 16-year-old suspect charged with stealing an automobile, Judge Samuel Leibowitz of New York City's Kings County (Brooklyn) Court discovered something about U.S. education that left him "speechless." Though the boy could spell both "dog" and "cat" orally, he could not write either. As a matter of fact, he could not write at all. Had he never been to school? Yes, indeed-he had had three terms of high school. "This," said the judge, "is unbelievable...