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A vigilant internal security force fights industrial spying
Despite all that the Catholic Church did for him, Herrin is now an atheist who has "retired from religion." Interviewed by Meyer after he had spent three years in a medium-security prison, he insists: "I think I've served enough time to compensate." Others would side with the...
DIED. Louis Lyons, 84, distinguished newspaper journalist, radio essayist, director of Harvard University's Nieman Foundation and vigilant watchdog of the American press; of cancer; in Cambridge, Mass. Lyons became a first-rank reporter and editorial writer at the Boston Globe, and in 1938 he earned a place in...
The mushiness and slow pace of the State Department have driven many outsiders to distraction. Left to its own devices, the State Department machinery tends toward inertia rather than creativity; it is always on the verge of turning itself into an enormous cable machine. If a cable is of special...
The layoffs rippled rapidly across the nation. Visitors to the Statue of Liberty were turned away. Agriculture Department offices from Atlanta to Hawaii closed down. But the ever vigilant Internal Revenue Service kept pursuing tax evaders, wherever they could be found.