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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...retinue of three lawyers, devoted employees and jewelry-hung wife. When Subcommittee Chairman Oren Harris administered the oath, Goldfine helplessly mouthed words, cleared a frog from his throat and finally croaked: "I do." Then he launched into the 25-page statement that the lawyers and pressagents had written, right down to grammatical errors, to fit his role of the common but honest...
...Sherman Adams, who shared his faith in the industrial future of New England. On cue, during the reading he removed a gold wristwatch. passed it to the committee-"providing I get it back.'' Said he: "The watch I am wearing now. on the back of it is written 'to B.G.'-that means Bernard Goldfine-'from S.A.'-that's Governor Sherman Adams-dated Jan. 20. 1953. and we all know that date. That is the inauguration date President Eisenhower was inaugurated...
...Word." That night in the Sheraton-Carlton, Goldfine's handlers again put him before television cameras-with trimmings. Newsmen were invited to the hotel, where liquor and caviar were waiting (Goldfine picked up the tab, but he and his lawyers declined to say if it would be written off on his tax returns). Goldfine was nearly an hour late, so Publicist McCrary presided, still explaining that he was not going to make a red cent out of his efforts (next day, McCrary withdrew from the Goldfine team). Finally, Goldfine entered the steaming room, along with his wife...
Last week the Supreme Court unanimously struck down the Alabama contempt conviction as a violation of the constitutional rights of N.A.A.C.P. members. Said the opinion, written by Justice John Marshall Harlan: "Freedom to engage in association for the advancement of beliefs and ideas is an inseparable aspect of the 'liberty' assured by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. . . . Inviolability of privacy in group association may in many circumstances be indispensable to preservation of freedom of association...
...argued the moral responsibility of both church and state to look after the needs of the people, and has had little brief for capitalism-at least the type of capitalism that Italy has long known. Said Fanfani in Catholicism, Protestantism and Capitalism, one of the 16 books he has written: "Capitalism requires such a dread of loss, such a forgetfulness of human brotherhood, such a certainty that a man's neighbor is merely a customer to be gained or a rival to be overthrown, and all these are inconceivable in the Catholic conception . . . There is an unbridgeable gulf between...