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...America, the New York Thruway. At a banquet in Rochester, Dewey pressed a button that opened turnpike exchanges on the 115-mile stretch from West Henrietta, near Rochester, to Lowell, near Utica. For New York, the Thruway may be the most important achievement of its kind since De Witt Clinton in 1825 opened the Erie Canal and gave the state the jump on its neighbors. The aorta of commerce, the canal made the state great. In its first year of operation, the canal carried 40,000 westering Americans to the frontier, shuttled the products of the West back...
...functional Red cell in Federal government came into being in 1933. Others followed. The secret work of cell-members was sometimes pure spying, sometimes subtle influence of policy by advancing careerists. Accused of being early cell members were Alger Hiss, Harold Ware, Victor Perlo, John Abt, Charles Kramer, Nathan Witt, Lee Pressman, Henry Wadleigh '33, and Harry Dexter White. The last two, according to testimony, were not organizational Communists but were willing to play ball with the "apparatus." Other once-prominent government officials later accused of espionage activities were Harold Glasser, Nathan Silvermaster, V. Frank Coe and William L. Ullmann...
...Nathan Witt, 50, was secretary of the National Labor Relations Board from 1937 to 1940, when important labor-management decisions were being made. Witt, named by Chambers as a member of the Communist cell organized by Harold Ware, invoked the Fifth Amendment. He is now a New York lawyer...
...Witt, 46, both Polish-born, see nothing odd in their hyphenated approach to their work. "When people ask us why we collaborate," says Him, "we ask, 'Why don't others do the same?' ' The single artist, he explains, must play critic and artist alternately. "Working together, we have this corrective thing all the time." Says Le Witt: "If you want to know who does what, we can't tell you anything. We think it's more interesting to leave people guessing...
During their visit, Lewitt-Him hope to line up some U.S. clients, and feel sure their ideas will not be lost on Americans. "If you can find something interesting in an object," says Le Witt, "you can interest other people. People like the vague bit of a puzzle, and once they get into it. they feel they are taking part in the creation of it." "Just," concludes Him, "as they accept the challenge of a crossword...