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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Santa Claus. The subcommittee had other ideas. When Goldfine finally finished his laborious script-reading, the questions came furiously. Counsel Robert W. Lishman asked Goldfine if, as ordered, he had brought along the records pertaining to $776,879.16 in treasurer's and cashier's checks* purchased by various Goldfine-controlled companies since 1941-and still uncashed as of last...
...tactically watertight-and morally as leaky as a sieve. The plan was to buy up defaulted North Carolina railroad bonds for pennies, lobby or bribe the legislature into redeeming them, and sell on the rise. Littlefield found a ready ally in a pious, serpentine North Carolina banker named George W. Swepson...
Last week the U.S. had, for the reading, as thoughtful and searching an analysis of its educational system as it is likely to get. Source: the fourth report of the Special Studies Project of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.* The authors (among them: John W. Gardner, Carnegie Corporation of New York president; the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame; Sociologist David Riesman) are sharply critical of defects in U.S. education, and aware that the nation's future depends largely on whether these defects are mended...
Brigadier General Donald W. Saunders, 45, commander of the Strategic Air Command's 57th Air Division...
Died. Donald W. Sorrell, 64, onetime skipper (retired since 1956) of the Queen Mary, who, during the New York tugboat strike of 1953, displayed his master seamanship by turning on the knuckle of Manhattan's Pier 90, bending his behemoth of the seas into her slip without the services of the usual flotilla of tugs; of a heart ailment; in Southampton, England...