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When he sat before the cameras on Capitol Hill (TIME. Feb. 14 et seq.),False Witness Harvey Matusow appeared to enjoy his role. He babbled about his stringless Yo-Yo. eagerly called himself a liar, and caused consternation among Congressmen, who thought he should be jailed for perjury. The legal problem: Could the Government, in prosecution for perjury, clearly establish specific Matusow lies, as distinguished from his occasional truths? Last week, for Harvey Matusow, both the scene and the situation changed...
...refused, claiming the immunity granted by the Fifth Amendment, to name the manufacturer for fear of hurting the toy's sales. Curious, Senator Herman Welker persisted: What was the toy? A miniature lie detector? "Well," said Matusow coyly, as the hearing-room crowd roared, "I call it a stringless...
This was not the stringless independence Java's rebel President, Dr. Soekarno, had sought, but it was close enough to be palatable to most Indonesians. However, extremists attacked Dutch soldiers at Buitenzorg, and the mother country had a few extremists...
...Salt Lake deposited natural salts in the land, leaving .4 of i% of salts, more than is permissible for many crops. Nick's experiment simulated Utah soil, but he failed to import Utah climate, which provides for the growth of Utah's huge stalks of crisp, white, stringless sweetheart celery...
...Samuel Insull had been extradited by the Federal Government from Greece, he could have been tried only on the fraudulent bankruptcy charge. Instead he was deported from Turkey as an undesirable alien. As his deportation was stringless, he can be tried on any and all of the indictments. This delights the Government attorneys because they intend to try him first for using the mails to defraud. If he is acquitted on that charge, he will be tried under the bankruptcy law. If that also fails he will be turned over to Illinois to see what that State can do with...