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...trial would be a test of the government's willingness to administer equal justice under the law. As witness after witness-some 200-contributed his piece of the puzzle, all Italy read column after, column of newsprint on the trial, searching suspiciously for signs of favoritism or a fix. And, under the eyes of all Italy, the Montesi affair slowly but unmistakably changed from "Italy's Dreyfus case" to a sordid little family scandal...
...attention fix...
...McCarthy, who once told a friend that in his dying hour he would hope to fix his mind on some image of personal glory, might have judged himself a failure in the last twelve months of his life. For in Joe McCarthy's mind, "to do something" meant only one thing: to push himself to power amid the cheers of the crowd. And having pushed himself too far, too fast, too ruthlessly, he fell near to oblivion and a restless frustration that his close friends say contributed to his last illness...
With this estimate Walter Reuther took angry exception. Cried he: "Our present inflation is a rigged inflation based on prices arbitrarily set by a handful of executives of the major corporations who fix prices to maximize their profits rather than production and employment." Even ex-Socialist Reuther knew better than that. But what was encouraging in the hassle was that both management and labor-each understandably edgy about the rising criticism of the upward spiral-were so anxious to defend their positions before the public. From such edginess could come a new caution which ultimately should benefit management, labor...
...accidentally' leave a five-dollar bill on the seat beside the inspector."* Recounting one attempt by a New York lawyer "to put money into his pocket and mine that should have gone to my employers," Coulter insisted: "Seldom a week goes by without someone offering a 'fix...