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...McCarran. Testifying on Communist infiltration in the U.S., German-born Karl Wittfogel, onetime professor of Chinese history at Columbia University and a professed ex-Communist, said that in 1938 he and Norman, then a student in the Japanese department at Columbia, had attended a Communist study group on Cape Cod. Wittfogel. now a contributor to the New Leader, testified that he had known Norman as a Communist...
Canada's Department of External Affairs took pains to say that Norman had never visited Cape Cod. External Affairs Chief Lester Pearson told a press conference that he had sent a message to Washington, expressing "regret and annoyance" that Norman had been named "on the basis of an unimpressive and unsubstantiated allegation by a former Communist." The charges against Norman, Pearson said, had been investigated in two Canadian security checks, "as a result of which Mr. Norman was given a clean bill of health, and he therefore remains a trusted and valuable official of the department." At the same...
...Since they have a staff of servants at home, Mrs. Kennedy has sat in at almost all of the Teamster hearings to watch her husband at work. In the hearing room, Kennedy took a terrier grip on recalcitrant witnesses, accusing, badgering and interrupting in his high-pitched, bean-and-cod-accented voice, drawing on a remarkable store of information...
Hanford said that he "never experienced a dull moment" in his life as dean. Reminiscing about some of the unusual problems he had to face, he mentioned the stealing of the Sacred Cod and the time two Californians got lost in the Maine woods. He also told of the time several Harvard men photographed the stolen Yale Bulldog licking hamburger off the toe of John Harvard...
...years the pier has also become a symbol of the industry's steady decline. Since World War II, Boston's trawler fleet has dropped from 140 to 79, its once huge force of fishermen to 2,000, its share of the vital groundfish market (e.g., flounder, haddock, cod), which was once 90%, to 45%. Yet last week the Boston fish pier was sprucing up as if it had not a worry in the world. Fresh coats of paint covered the weather-beaten buildings, ramshackle structures were being razed, new signs warned filthy-booted fishermen: PLEASE KEEP YOUR FEET...