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...small precincts, three "reporters" often found themselves struggling to see over the shoulder of one kind old lady counting votes. It was too silly and needlessly expensive. Last week the three networks and the wire services agreed to set up a joint Network Election Service that will di vide the chores, pool the results, and present the same vote count to a viewer no matter what channel he is watching...
More or less oblivious to these figures, 776 chanting, clapping delegates to the 17th Party Congress in Paris' Latin Quarter heard Party Boss Maurice Thorez describe changes in the party advertised as "revolutionary." They turned out to be hardly that. To pro vide a little more "democracy" in convention proceedings, secret balloting was introduced, and 30 new Central Committee members were elected to replace oldtimers. Potentially the most important change: Thorez himself resigned after 34 years as secretary-general...
Dream of Bagatelle. The World Wide Wicket Company has become the Tourniquet Transcontinental Trusting Company, in order to avoid a shabby French tendency to say Vorld Vide Vicket Company. When its president, J. B. Biggley, tells his florid mistress that few people know it but he is an extremely emotional man, she says (in the American version): "God damn...
Recently, President Eisenhower announced that he would "walk an extra mile" to reach an agreement at the "summit." While the President (vide his recent remarks about the Moscow Art Exhibit) is about the least likely authority to be quoted in an art review, I'll draw a somewhat shaky parallel from his political mots justes and urge all 3850 of my potential readers to walk the "extra mile" across the Yard to the Fogg Museum for a truly rewarding meeting at the summit of this past century...
...repeatedly pointed out how even in cases of ordinary crime, innocent persons may be trapped into incriminating admissions. But in political cases the possibilities of entrapment are multiplied ad infinitum. The dangers are increased by (1) the grand juries an deposit juries; (2) the amorphous character of the crimes; vide the Lattimore indictment involving the alleged promotion of Communist interests; (3) the use of the conspiracy concept of which we were warned by Justice Jackson in the Krulewitch case; (4) the governmental use of informers paraded from case in case; (5) the disregard of basic principles of double jeopardy...