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Brennan's soft answer turned away no wrath: still determined to fight Brennan's Senate confirmation, McCarthy ranted away trying to make it appear that Roman Catholic Brennan was soft on Communism. Clasping his hands on the table in front 'of him, Brennan answered Joe's questions calmly. But even when Joe gave it up as a bad job, he could still fall back on the explanation he had made at the hearing's start: "I don't have any high hopes of being successful in opposition to Justice Brennan's nomination...
Worthy is one of three American newspapermen who incurred State Department wrath by violating a ban on travel in Communist China. He and two men from Look Magazine disregarded warnings that their passports were invalid for that country, and still face possible legal action and passport revocation. He returned to this country...
...Uncle Chunk has long since warned Polk: "A rolling stone don't gather no mortgages." So off they roll, to the Southwest, to California, wherever a crop is making. Author Williams' world is an inevitable reminder of John Steinbeck's dustbowl refugees in The Grapes of Wrath, but she has incurred no literary debt. Hers is a book of little form, but the substance is fresh, and all the accidents, coincidences and rashes of sentimentality are not allowed to get too far beyond life's normal quota...
...Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi demanded a special U.N. Assembly session on Israel's delay in evacuating Sinai and Gaza, on threat of "extremely serious consequences." These might include a threat to halt work on the canal, which would bring down on Nasser's head the wrath of the U.N. and the U.S. A British visitor who called on the strongman last week reported: "Colonel Nasser told me the only thing he wants now is a bit of quiet." He might find it hard...
...hesitate to stand on the Senate floor and pay tribute to Acheson's handling of the Japanese peace treaty. When Harry Truman was subjected to a below-the-belt attack by Idaho's pink-tinged Democratic Senator Glen Taylor, it was Republican Knowland who arose roaring in wrath. "As long as he sits in the White House," said Knowland, "President Truman is my President...