Word: transcript
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Handing circumloquacious Committee Counsel Ray Jenkins the job of boiling down the 2,000,000-word transcript of the Army-McCarthy squabble to a terse report was more or less like asking a mighty gale to become a zephyr. Last week Acting Committee Chairman Karl Mundt complained that Jenkins' "bulky" summary would take two days just to read, let alone digest. Down in Knoxville, a trifle hurt by his caucus-room pal's reflection on his distilling prowess, Jenkins replied testily: "It was reduced from a 7,424-page document down to 447 pages... accompanied by a brief...
...secure the Deputy Foreign Minister's signature on papers they knew Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop would not have signed. Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of German military intelligence, was passionately fond of his dachshunds, says Hoettl and when abroad would telephone daily to inquire of their health. Requesting a transcript of one of the admiral's tapped phone calls from Tangier to Berlin, the chief of the Spanish secret police was once highly chagrined to find that all the top secret information he had gained was a detailed report on the natural functions of an ailing dachshund...
...pages of fine print, the Oppenheimer case transcript contained ample evidence to show why the Atomic Energy Commission's personnel security board reached a 2-1 decision that Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance should be revoked...
Hearst's Journal-American read the decision to mean that it could now publish all the secret court transcript, promptly serialized on Page One the testimony of Call Girl Pat Ward. (The J-A thoughtfully substituted "A.G.." "R.M." and other initials for her customers' full names in the interests of "fairness.") But while other Manhattan papers had access to the juicy testimony, they printed not a word of it. They decided it was old stuff because the case had been so thoroughly covered when it was still "secret...
...France's Georges Bidault in the midst of an afternoon session. Set-faced and grim, Bidault accosted the U.S.'s Under Secretary of State Walter Bedell Smith the minute the session was over. "What does this mean?" he demanded bluntly. Smith hastily telephoned Washington for a full transcript of Dulles' press conference...