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Under Johnson and Bradley, a new team of top defense officials this week went to work. To succeed Bradley as Army Chief of Staff, the President named hardy, crisp-spoken 53-year-old General J. Lawton ("Lightning Joe") Collins, whose string of World War II campaigns stretched from Guadalcanal to the Rhine...
...floor of the U.S. Senate last week, two aged, reactionary spoilsmen, both vindictive, determined and ruthless, were waging a joint fight for power. Both, chip by chip, were being whittled down to size. One was 80-year-old Kenneth Douglas McKellar, the choleric Tennessee feudist who heads the all-powerful Appropriations Committee; the other was Nevada's silver-maned, silver-minded Patrick A. McCarran, 73, chairman of the scarcely less powerful Judiciary Committee...
...were threatened and badgered if they failed to go along with the McKellar-McCarran axis. Administration officials were called away from their jobs and up to Capitol Hill to be bullied and harassed. Under McCarran's chairmanship, the EGA watchdog committee (which wanted $344,000 expense money next year) had become a dirt-digging machine to supply Kenneth McKellar's rancorous attacks...
...Twenty years ago, all varieties of Government cost the average family less than $200 annually. Today it costs about $1,300. The U.S. citizen now has to work an average of 61 days a year to pay for his Government...
...Done what?" asked Jim. "Raped that white woman," the cop replied. That, swears Jim Montgomery, was the first he knew that he was in real trouble. Mamie Snow, a 62-year-old white woman who peddled doughnuts in Waukegan's squalid Negro district, had been found, beaten and moaning, near the Oakwood cemetery. Mamie vowed that she had been raped and the police told Jim that she had named him as her attacker...