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...diet of crow last week. Four years ago, in its attempt to take over the defense of Negro Rapist Willie McGee and use the case for party propaganda (TIME, May 14, 1951) the Worker printed an "exclusive." It charged that Mrs. Willette Hawkins, the Laurel (Miss.) housewife who accused McGee, had actually "forced an illicit affair on him for more than four years and suddenly shouted rape after the whole town discovered the story." Mrs. Hawkins sued the Worker for $1,000,000. Last week she settled for $5,000. to be paid in ten-week installments, and two apologies...
...against Interior Secretary Douglas McKay, whose "partnership" power policy has been received with mounting hostility in McKay's native state. To balding Dick Neuberger, this issue, especially the fight over the nearby Idaho Hell's Canyon project, coupled with the discontent among 100,000 lumbermen after a ten-week lumber strike, made 1954 the year, if any, for a Democrat in Oregon...
Secret Pencilings. On Dick Nixon's mind was the secret report he would deliver to the next morning's National Security Council meeting. For three days he had closeted himself in a secluded Capitol office, writing observations of and conclusions from his ten-week inspection of the Far and Near East. At the meeting, the NSC's 177th, Nixon pulled the penciled results from a file folder, read and talked for an hour and a half. Whatever it was he said, it made a good impression: his audience, consisting of the President, four Cabinet members, the Chiefs...
...opening statement, the President produced enough front-page news items to make up for the ten-week intermissions between conferences. Items...
Died. John Hall Paxton, 52, American consul at Isfahan, Iran, who in 1949 led a group of men, women & children in an epic, ten-week, 2,500-mile escape from Chinese Communists into India; of a coronary thrombosis, in Isfahan. Old China Hand Paxton, brought up in the Orient by missionary parents, was U.S. consul at Tihwa, in China's far western Sinkiang province, when Communist armies began pressing close. With his wife, an ex-Army nurse, the embassy staff and their wives & children, he started the long trek out by truck and jeep, through the depths...