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Earlier, Macmillan had denounced "speculation and innuendo" arising from a series of 25 fairly innocuous letters from Galbraith that had been discovered in Vassall's apartment (TIME, Nov. 16). Now he declared that, "however preposterous, however wicked and however vile" the charges, it was his "duty" to appoint a judicial tribunal to investigate the story -though hitherto he had brushed aside persistent Opposition demands for such a tribunal. This, Macmillan concluded, was "the only machinery open to us for the defense of innocent men if they be innocent, but for their condemnation if they be guilty...
...arrests seemed to contradict Nkrumah's original pronouncement that "foreign agents" had plotted his death. Nonetheless, Nkrumah's tame Ghanaian Times reported breathlessly that the "vile trio" had in one fell swoop tried to "ride the wave of the people's patience, throw dust into the eyes of the nation, trample over the leaders' forbearance, and disrupt the cause of the revolution." Thundered Nkrumah's Evening News: "The villains have been unmasked in the persons of the arch-Judas Adamafio, the lean and lanky
Heavy Editing. In his earlier days, Pegler distinguished between good and bad labor leaders. In 1941 he won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing labor racketeers, who later went to prison. After that, he soon decided that the whole labor movement was "incurably vile," delivered the opinion that packinghouse workers on strike in 1949 "deserved to be clubbed senseless or if it were necessary to be clubbed to death in the interest of public order and Government...
...Cavendish itself as two of the three most rewarding landmarks in London (with the Tower, which has not taken many boarders since the 16 century). The mid-Mayfair hotel remained for decades one of the last places in all England where, as Evelyn Waugh wrote of it in Vile Bodies, "one can still draw up, cool and uncontaminated, great, healing draughts of Edwardian certainty...
...This polecat . . . this vile, corrupt creature . . . this damnable skunk . . ." In these pungent terms, recalling a bygone style of political vituperation, Minnesota's Republican Representative H. Carl Andersen, last week on the House floor, attacked Washington Columnist Drew Pearson, who had written about Andersen's involvement in the Billie Sol Estes scandal (TIME cover, May 25). Andersen, senior Republican on the House subcommittee on agricultural appropriations, is so far the only Republican in Congress to be seriously tarnished by the Estes case: he took $4,000 from Estes for stock in a coal mine owned by the Andersen family...