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Three accredited private investigators of U.S. defenses nailed a bright red danger signal to the Pentagon's highest mast this week. The signal: "The military position of the United States has declined in the short span of 15 years from one of unchallenged security to that of a nation both open and vulnerable to direct and devastating attack." The investigators, operating on a grant from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: Paul H. Nitzer onetime chief policy planner (1950-53) for Democratic Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Military Pundit James E. King Jr., and Director Arnold Wolfers of the Johns...
Aside from Ole Earl's downfall, Long-suffering Louisianans had something else to their credit. Trailing back in third place with 138,000-and thus out of the running-was State Senator William Rainach, who billed himself as the most diehard segregationist of all, warned the voters that they had the choice of voting for him or "losing the segregation battle." The voters decided to take their chances...
...position of trust," as defined by Landrum-Griffin. The charges grew in part out of the Senate rackets committee hearings, where Hutcheson refused to answer questions, and out of a grand jury investigation, which led to Hutcheson's indictment on a charge of bribery in an Indiana state highway scandal. Specific complaints against Hutcheson and some of his lesser officers: accepting at least $107,935.07 in employer bribes, leasing valuable union property to Hutcheson kinsmen at token rates, spending union funds in efforts to bribe state officials to quash the bribery indictment, dipping into the multimillion-dollar "special organizing...
...other nations agreed last week to disarmament and a wide-open, no-strings-attached inspection system as well. The vast (5,500,000 sq. mi.) continent of Antarctica was guaranteed for 34 years as a peaceful scientific preserve in a treaty signed with full diplomatic pomp in a State Department auditorium. Nuclear explosions are specifically forbidden; any signatory may send an observer anywhere in the Antarctica at any time to look at anything...
...chosen from hundreds of applicants for the Folies chorus, has been there ever since. Says Lydia: "It's not the Warsaw Opera Ballet, but I love it." Asked where she would pin her Legion ribbon, Lydia answered: "I'll wear it at work only for a State visit to the Folies-which is unlikely...