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...Republicans, had been quietly looking into a sordid matter: the problem of homosexuals in the Government. The problem had been the subject of nervous explanations, joke-cracking and effective campaign sneers ever since last February, when Deputy Under Secretary of State John Peurifoy offhandedly told Congress that State had gotten rid of 91 employees for homosexuality...
There were 574 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...
...give a fellow recurring stomach spasms? Witness Marsh, a bacteriologist at University of Oklahoma medical school, said it would not. He had inspected the Coca-Cola Co.'s local bottling plant, admired its sanitary precautions and felt sure that no mouse, dead or alive, could have gotten into the bottle at the plant...
...guests and gate crashers departed early and quietly, leaving the field to Ambassador Popovich-who had not only dramatized his country's difficulties, but had also, if he felt that way, gotten the last laugh on the capital's name-dropping and tale-telling...
This course logically includes the following steps: 1) full support of Chiang Kai-shek and any other anti-Communist forces that are in China or that can be gotten into China; 2) the moral and material mobilization of Japan; 3) the military, political and economic strengthening of other non-Communist countries in Asia; 4) a rapid stepping-up of the defense of Europe...