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...week Justice Department Aide Walter Sheridan bolted out of a Chattanooga federal courtroom and put in a telephone call to his boss. "We made it!" Sheridan barked happily. "Nice work," said Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who has been making the downfall of Hoffa a principal target of his considerable zeal for seven years. Now Bobby had good cause for celebrating: Hoffa had just been found guilty on two counts of jury tampering. Each count can cost him $5,000 and five years in prison...
...armed forces." Another Opposition speaker sarcastically demanded assurances that the RCAF's new Bomarc missiles would not be stolen as well. Embarrassed officials of Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson's government could only reply that security measures were being tightened at armories all over Quebec. In their zeal, soldiers even paid a midnight call on a fashionable prep school and took away the cadets' World War I drill rifles...
Expansion or Stability? The controversy comes at a pivotal time. Calmer critics than Patman accuse the Federal Reserve of starting, or at least contributing to, the recessions of 1958 and 1960 by hiking interest rates and reducing the credit supply in its zeal to head off inflation. Now that some prices are rising anew, the central bankers again must ponder the question of whether to battle inflation at the risk of nipping the economy's three-year-old expansion. In recent months Chairman
...Ruhr's industrialists were slow to diversify, but lately they have begun to do so with zeal. In the most sweeping change, they have created a new oil industry to replace coal as a major source of power. Astride the groping arms of two major pipelines, refineries were built by several German companies and such international firms as Shell and British Petroleum. Where coal-based chemical plants once belched out dark and noisome fumes, modern petrochemical factories now cleanly crack oil into hundreds of new chemicals. A company called Chemische Werke Hüls has built the Ruhr...
...Hero. The hero of the first story is a lonely, goodhearted, un worldly army officer who has been stuck in a job as a traffic-control boss at a rail junction behind the receding Rus sian front in the fall of 1941. Lieut. Zotov exudes an innocent revolution ary zeal that clearly has no place in the cynical power structure of the Soviet world. In the '30s, when he volunteered to go to Spain, the authorities regarded him as some kind of nut and sent him back to the university. He is troubled because the war is not following...