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Since his Feb. 9, 1950 speech at Wheeling, W. Va., McCarthy has accused scores of Government employees of being Communists. But of these, only one man, former State Department Official Val Lorwin, was indicted. Lorwin turned out to be a lifelong antiCommunist, and the case against him was dismissed. In addition, indictments have been returned against three persons charged with contempt of the McCarthy committee...
...Minnesota Republican Kristjan Valdimar ("Val") Bjornson, an ex-reporter who can and does orate in Icelandic, Finnish, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian, was nominated to run against Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey...
Short Snorter. In Manitowoc, Wis., Ray Du Val, flustered at arriving late to defend his beer-drinking title, downed a gallon instead of the required half-gallon, still beat his nearest rival by ten seconds, explained his tardiness: "I was at the bar down the street having a beer...
Died. Alcide de Gasperi, 73, one of the principal founders of Italy's Christian Democratic Party and its pre-eminent postwar Premier (1945-53); of a heart ailment; in Sella Val Sugana, Italy (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...name, chlorpromazine is a versatile and fantastically interesting drug to medical researchers. Peppery young (38) Dr. Henri Laborit, who darts from experiment to experiment in his Paris laboratory at Val de Grâce Hospital, used the brand-new chemical on animals late in 1950. He found that it worked against shock and produced the effects of hibernation. Laborit promptly organized a research team to make the most of these effects, and from its combined efforts came the "lytic cocktail." In this, chlorpromazine is combined with Phenergari and Dolosal to block the automatic nervous system...