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...privilege, the fair inference is that he must be a pickpocket and a thief. That natural inference might be drawn to his detriment in the ordinary affairs of life--for instance, a bank might conclude that such a person could hardly be a good risk for employment as a teller, if he has got himself in such a fix that he cannot answer a question like that. The only place inference cannot be drawn is at a criminal trial...
...coast to coast, and are as varied as a pirate's treasure (see map). No sooner has he bought a ship line than he wants a railroad, no sooner a candy company than he gets a grocery. Murchison juggles multimillion-dollar deals with the unconcern of a racetrack teller counting $2 bills. In Texas, where such a man is admiringly known as a "wheeler-dealer," Clint Murchison is the biggest wheeler-dealer of them all. Says Sid Richardson: "Murchison is the kind of man that tells you, 'Here, hold this horse while I run and catch another...
After only two months in college, Gambler Murchison was caught in a crap game. He was told he could stay if he signed a no-craps pledge. But Murchison would not make such a promise; he returned to Athens as a teller in his father's bank. Instead of staying in his cage, Clint spent most of his time drinking coffee and drumming up business at the corner drugstore. He could not be bothered counting small change that was not included in the bank's legal reserves. But a bank inspector reasoned differently, ordered Murchison to count every...
TIME'S article . . . reads like a scene from an Orwellian nightmare. More and more, responsible people are coming to realize that the U.S. is becoming just as great a threat to civilization as the Soviet Union when men like Dr. Edward Teller and Lewis Strauss are allowed to play God with the H-bomb...
...EDWARD TELLER Eniwetok...