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...unknown" (commonly put at $500) from Teamster-linked Gambler Clifford Bennett during a raid on Bennett's after-hours joint in 1955, and 2) perjury before the grand jury by denying he took the bribe. Testifying before the McClellan committee, Schrunk had also denied the bribery charge despite sworn testimony by eyewitnesses, demanded a lie-detector test, stalked out when the questions got too hot: e.g., Had he in fact ever been paid off by gamblers...
...Although it is designed principally to preserve the vast stretches of Arab territory from Communism, it also applies to the Arabs' sworn enemy, tiny Israel, without taking sides...
...collection of islands which includes Celebes, the Moluccas and fabled Bali, East Indonesia has spawned half a dozen revolutionary movements-among them the fanatically Moslem Darul Islam and the so-called "Republic of the South Moluccas." At the head of last week's bloodless coup, however, was no sworn foe of the government but one of President Sukarno's favorites-handsome, 35-year-old Lieut. Colonel Ventje Sumual. A onetime sergeant in the Dutch army, and a Christian, who won Sukarno's affections while serving as his bodyguard. Colonel Sumual had the backing of 51 East Indonesian...
Eisenhower appointed Brennan to the court last Sept. 29, succeeding Justice Sherman Minton, retired, and he was sworn in Oct. 16. Congress was not in session then, and he is now going through the Senate confirmation process...
Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson was accosted at the White House (where Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield had just been sworn in again) by three news-service lensmen. who hung on his lapel a button inscribed "S.O.D." Its meaning: "Sons of Dunghill," commemorating the January occasion when "Engine" Charlie, fresh from another White House palaver over his remarks about the National Guard (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), declined to comment on the meeting, blurting: "This isn't my dunghill!" Quip-per Wilson finally explained last week exactly what he had meant, thus increased his renown for honesty, if not discretion. Said Charlie...