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...witnesses what facts came out, as it clearly has done in its July 25 article "Skeletons in the City Room." TIME correctly reported that I testified before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee that all correspondents in Korea "in" on the Sabre jet story and their first brush with the enemy agreed to hold it by specific direction of the Fifth Air Force. Reason: intelligence believed the encounter so fleeting that the enemy still did not realize the Sabre jets' presence . . . On the most crucial point at stake, TIME garbles my testimony by reporting: "Talbert argued that security was violated...
...mobilizes under its natural leader, Washington's leading witch-hunter, Senator Jason Ransom. When an over-Taurumed African violet is left by accident in Ransom's car. and turns into a "huge writhing mass," the Senator, envisaging a "Red assassin," empties his revolver into the back-seat brush. Soon he is alerting his colleagues, "I can hardly believe the unbelievable extent of this conspiracy," and grabbing scare headlines, e.g., "RANSOM SAYS REDS PLAN ATTACK ON U.S. CURRENCY...
Along Lake Huron's rocky northern rim, where the Canadian Pacific railroad and the Trans-Canada Highway skirt the jack pine forest, blue smoke from smoldering brush fires hangs lazily in the hot, still air. In a raw new clearing the bright steel of a mine headframe cuts an angular pattern against the sky. From the smooth blacktop highway trucks laden with lumber and machinery waddle off toward mine sites deep in the bush. A scattered army of engineers, diamond drillers, airplane pilots, and hardrock miners is turning 900 square miles of lake-pocked wilderness into a billion-dollar...
...Well-built, quick-witted, fine sense of timing." With the deal closed, Elliott relaxed in his hotel room, happy with the thought of peerless plugs for "everything from soap to beer." As the phone kept ringing, he reached for it, murmuring, "I have no time to do anything but brush off peers." But Vicki seemed sorry that the contest was over. "They've all been perfect gentlemen," she sighed...
Nothing riles a West Coast artist more than being told that he lives in an artistic bush league, that every artist worthy of his brush ought to take off for Manhattan and the majors. To prove that they can hold their own even in international competition, West Coast stay-at-homes this year decided on an all-out effort. Occasion: the third São Paulo Bienal, which Brazilian Millionaire Francisco Matarazzo Sobrinho has promoted to rank with Venice's Biennale and the Carnegie International as a worldwide roundup of modern...