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...narrowing of the Smith Act was based on the meaning of the word "organize." The Smith Act specifies that whoever "organizes" groups dedicated to overthrow of the Government by force or violence is in violation of the law. Justice Department lawyers argued that the meaning of "organize" included such usual Communist Party activities as "the recruiting of new members and the forming of new units, and the regrouping or expansion of existing clubs, classes and other units"; in fact, said the Government, some of the defendants were actually titled Communist "organizers...
Since January, Eastland had kept the Administration bill in a tight committee grip. Meanwhile, the House went ahead with its own version, beat off Southern attempts to enfeeble it with amendments (TIME, June 24), finally last week passed it by a vote of 286 to 126. By the usual procedure, under Senate Rule 25, the House's bill seemed headed for the Eastland committee. But California's Minority Leader William F. Knowland was ready with a fast parliamentary ploy: he invoked 80-year-old Rule 14, under which a member can request that a House-passed measure...
...Oregon's Wayne Morse announced his misgivings about upsetting usual Senate procedure. The other four Democrats: Washington's Warren Magnuson, Montana's James Murray, Montana's Mike Mansfield, and Massachusetts' John Kennedy...
...invaded the palace, forced Fignole to sign a letter of resignation, later whisked him to Miami on an air force plane. Next morning Kebreau went on the air and announced Haiti's seventh government in six months: a three-man military junta, headed by himself, to rule-as usual-until "fair and free elections" could be held...
Tomtomfoolery. From Horatio Alger, Satirist West moved on to Hollywood, where he had worked as a script writer. Apart from the usual film-colony grotesques, The Day of the Locust parades witless cowboys, actors, emotional cripples, dwarfs and a memorably mindless, chrome-pated sexpot. It ends in madness and violence, like the others-a mob at a Hollywood premiere tramples an artist, who is carried offstage screaming...