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This leaves a residue of perhaps two million typists and filing clerks who have scarcely more opportunity to affect the national weal than their counterparts at Sears Roebuck's. Even if a good percentage of them were Muscovite zealots, they could still be no more effective than their fellow employees' morale allowed. The Presidential and Republican pretense that the more exposure of Federal workers to such employees' Marxism means automatic conversion, is something less than believable. The question here is academic, of course, because few modern Communists publicize their affiliations. This evasion has provided a field day for the witch...
Austrian Conservatives were madder than Pennsylvania Republicans. Hunters complained that, under the new measure, there would soon be no wildlife left in Carinthia. That, in turn, would badly affect Austria's future tourist business. The Communists, on the other hand, thought nationalization of hunting was a fine idea...
Earthworms come in some 2,200 varieties, ranging in size from the one-inch species that inhabit old logs to the seven-foot Gippsland giant of Australia. Some affect bright colors, including purple, blue and green. Regeneration of lost tails-and sometimes heads-is only one of the worm's accomplishments. A hermaphrodite, the earthworm carries both male & female reproductive organs in its many-segmented body. But two worms normally cross-fertilize each other; experts doubt that a single worm ever acts as both father & mother of its own eggs...
...basis of a 7?-an-hour pay increase and a new pension plan-the first in any major auto contract (see BUSINESS). The plan gave some promise of removing insecurity, which in the end underlies all labor strife. Labor leaders and management both hailed it. But it did not affect the main issue. Across the nation, labor's fight on the Taft-Hartley Act would go on until every sentence had been challenged and bitterly tested...
...will not halt strikes. The emergency procedure will only affect nationwide strikes that threaten the national safety...