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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...cases involving civilian Government employees and 69 are still under investigation; in all the other cases the accused had either quit, been cleared or fired. The investigators found the greatest batch of civilian cases-143-in the State Department. State had cleared or gotten rid of all but a dozen whose cases were still pending. A surprise second in the totals was the Veterans Administration, with 101 cases. Others: Atomic Energy Commission, 8; EGA, 27; Congress' legislative agencies (Library of Congress, congressional employees, etc.), 19; White House office, none...
...Every day for the past two weeks it has been the same," said a checkout girl in a Detroit A & J supermarket. "I just get the prices fixed in my mind when the manager comes up with another half-dozen raises. Eggs are down two cents today-that I can remember...
...other side of the counter, most of the nation's customers had the same sense of frustration for slightly different reasons. In Los Angeles, the ordinary citizen looked at his breakfast plate; the two eggs staring at him came from a dozen which cost 93?; he drank a 94?-a-lb. coffee, six or seven cents higher than two weeks ago, then headed for the office on a bus whose fare was a third higher than it was a month ago. The story was much the same in shops, department stores, haberdasheries and restaurants. The U.S. was reaching through...
...could remember any single day in U.N. history when there had been as many private talks among the delegates. India's white-thatched Sir Senegal Rau buzzed up & down the corridors at Lake Success, in & out of at least a dozen meetings. Red China and Red Korea had answered Rau's petition for a Communist military halt at the 38th parallel by sending North Korean troops across the parallel (TIME, Dec. 18). India's undeterred envoy now proposed to ask for a ceasefire...
...shaped much of the nation's domestic policy. As Home Minister, he used his police to suppress Communist terrorism and to "discipline" troublesome labor unions. As States Minister, he brought India's 550-odd feudal princelings to heel. (In one whirlwind 96-hour tour he pressured two dozen princes into surrendering their political powers, thus added 8,000,000 people and 56,000 square miles to the Dominion of India.) Together with his many friends among India's industrialists, he worked successfully to modify Nehru's socialist tendencies...