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When he sat before the cameras on Capitol Hill (TIME. Feb. 14 et seq.),False Witness Harvey Matusow appeared to enjoy his role. He babbled about his stringless Yo-Yo. eagerly called himself a liar, and caused consternation among Congressmen, who thought he should be jailed for perjury. The legal problem: Could the Government, in prosecution for perjury, clearly establish specific Matusow lies, as distinguished from his occasional truths? Last week, for Harvey Matusow, both the scene and the situation changed...
...claiming the immunity granted by the Fifth Amendment, to name the manufacturer for fear of hurting the toy's sales. Curious, Senator Herman Welker persisted: What was the toy? A miniature lie detector? "Well," said Matusow coyly, as the hearing-room crowd roared, "I call it a stringless yo-yo...
...Texas, were bewildered by the fuss. "We saw nothing wrong with it," said King Paul. "We both enjoyed it very much." Echoed the Queen: "It was lovely." But the modest Californians refused to drop the subject. Said Councilman Don Allen: "The King and Queen must wonder what kind of yo-yo heads we have in Los Angeles...
Eventually the whole mess, truce talks and all, was dropped into the threshing machine of a U.S. presidential election. Bitterness overflowed against Korea, the allies, the U.N. and all its works. "The war in Korea," cried Senator James P. Kern of Missouri, "is a stalemate, a treadmill, a yo-yo war . . . Our allies take the cash. Our boys take the bullets...
...ducks, which are a welcome relief, arrive after Yo-Yo inadvertently nods during an auction. After quarreling over the poultry, the Drakes make up by writing on their first boiled duck eggs: "I'm sorry. Me too." When Fairbanks hits it with a knife, it gives off a note stolen from "Gerald McBoing-Boing" and the show is on. At this point, the sound track is cluttered with noise, and the plot filled with impossible sequences. A representative from some ministry shows up with hundreds of forms in triplicate (red tape in Socialist governments). Then the army invades...