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Three mules of varying sizes were on hand to represent the Army along with three Cadet riders. The long-earned creatures were apparently not up for the game. They were momentarily confused by the number of Harvard musicians vying for the spotlight, and thrown into a panic by a costumed gentleman from a local comic publication...
...enough of Jacob Lomakin, its consul general in New York City.* The U.S. was going to send him home; it could no longer tolerate the kind of hooliganism that had marked his conduct of the Kasenkina affair (TIME, Aug. 16-23). For a week the world's spotlight was fixed on Lomakin, a typical Soviet public servant...
...congressional witnesses did not mean that those persons had been automatically cleared. For one thing, there was a strong suspicion that Department of Justice lawyers had not been overanxious to produce evidence which would reflect on a Democratic Administration. For another, congressional investigators could and should throw their spotlight in areas which no grand jury can illuminate...
Their documentary proved nothing new. It probably cured no addicts of the Communist drug pipe.* But in turning the spotlight of fact into dark corners of methods and basic philosophy, it achieved a notable success...
...trouble talking Florida's florid Senator Claude Pepper into being their candidate. Deadpan Claude Pepper, onetime champion of Russia, onetime apologist for Henry Wallace, onetime defender of Harry Truman against the Dixie rebels, and the last drummer in the Eisenhower parade, made the most of the spotlight. He strode into the abandoned Eisenhower headquarters, bussed his wife at the cameramen's request and proclaimed that he would "accept the draft." Said Claude Pepper: "This is no time for politics as usual...