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Harrassed by late returnees begging pardon, the dorm keeper blasted his reply to the fake note, saying that real McCoy notes would be handwritten in the future...
...Buddhists among Ceylon's 8,000,000 population, and each side strove to outdo the other in pledges of devotion to Buddha. Campaign cars careened through Ceylon's palms and rice fields loaded with saffron-robed monks, and each side accused the other of employing fake monks...
...relishes his work. His geniality has not rubbed off under the stress. His singing and his original songs (sample title: The Squaws on the Yukon Are Good Enough for Me) are famous in Washington. Office staffers have learned to ignore his flagrant practical jokes-like the swollen and bloody fake finger he sometimes wears. He has to fight his weight (and at 225 Ibs., the weight is winning). To the casual observer he seems to be a bald and bouncy gladhander, as carefree as a prankster at an American Legion convention...
Useless Blood. Mollet's program did not sit well with anybody. "A fake attempt to negotiate peace and half measures to prepare for war!" cried Jean Jacques Servan-Schreiber in L'Express (the newspaper of the Mendès-France camp, which this week gave up its costly attempt to become a Parisian daily and went back to being a weekly). The left-wing Combat warned: "It is the Indo-China solution. The shameful war by petits paquets [little packets], the blood spilled uselessly, with the prospect of an increasing extension of hostilities, capped by a new Dienbienphu...
...lawyer's statement to the jury, Paul Hughes, 35, is "base, venal, greedy" and "a louse," who admitted taking money for his fake evidence of crimes by Senator Joe McCarthy and his investigators (TIME, Jan. 30). In all, Hughes collected $10,800 from Joseph L. Rauh Jr., chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, and Editor Clayton Fritchey of the Democratic Digest, who testified that Hughes had fooled them roundly. But last week Hughes was acquitted in his Manhattan trial for perjury...