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...published in 1888) could pass for an up-to-date case history of psychological spookery but for the fact that it is drenched with old-fashioned ideas. A young seminarist is bowed before the altar, taking his priestly vows, when he glimpses a green-eyed courtesan of "supernatural beauty." Thenceforth, his life takes on a Jekyll-and-Hyde cast: by day he is a humble village priest, by night "the Lord Romuald," lover of Clarimonde, living in an Italian palace amid such pomp and splendor that "I do not believe that since Satan fell from heaven, any creature was ever...
...Eisenhower partially undid Truman's work by ordering that top bureaucratic policymakers (about 800) be stripped of their job security. Last month, in a further return to the status quo ante Truman, Ike decreed that all nonveterans who held full-time Schedule A jobs (nearly 54,000) should thenceforth be subject to dismissal at the will of their bosses...
...Senator McCarran's Internal Security subcommittee could find no evidence of treason on his part. Instead, they indicted him on seven counts of perjury. If imprisoned because of any one of them, he will thenceforth be known as the "convicted perjurer-traitor" by large segments of the American press and public, so it is as convenient a charge...
...productivity." Lilienthal's law would automatically repeal "the Sherman and Clayton acts, and all other existing laws, administrative policies and judicial interpretations of the antitrust laws" insofar as they were inconsistent with the Basic Economic Act. Under its terms, "the legal test Bigness would have to face would thenceforth be whether the particular aspect of size challenged by the Government does in fact further the public interest." Such a law, says Lilienthal, would mark a transition from a negative to a positive approach to Big Business. But he is apparently unworried that it would also mark a transition from...
...Pusan. There, in 1948, a gang of South Korean Communists went after him. Hiding in his house, he listened helplessly as the rioters beat his wife for refusing to tell where he was. They beat her until her eyes grew blank, until she could remember nothing but would thenceforth sit all the day staring...