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...bringing peace and order to a once chaotic business. Its top job has traditionally gone to career men, and industry has violently opposed any attempt by politicians to make it a patronage plum. Current FDA boss is George P. Larrick, 54, who entered the service as an inspector, was promoted to the commissionership...
After reports came in that he associated with Communists and attended the meetings of a subversive organization called the Nature Friends of America, gaunt, balding Kendrick M. Cole was unceremoniously suspended from his $4,950-a-year job as a U.S. food and drug inspector in New York. At first Cole refused to reply to the charges, labeling them as "an invasion of my private rights." He quickly changed his mind, asked for an administrative hearing (which was denied), took his case to the courts, and went to work as a tree surgeon. That was three years ago. Last week...
...Dollar a Dozen. Main topics of conversation at these stops, the inspectors found, were sex and drugs. There was so much loose talk about the drugs that they soon knew dozens of places to buy them, though many truck drivers emphatically refused to touch the stuff. Drivers were not the only customers: at a gas station in Charlotte, N.C. an inspector saw a teen-age boy plunk down a dollar bill for a bag of a dozen bennies (Benzedrine tablets), which wholesale in large quantities for about $2 a thousand...
...taken to a hospital, county and city police, FBI agents and newspapermen were looking for the attacker and the answers to some obvious questions: Who had hired him? And why? The search was blocked not by a shortage of clues but by a plethora of them. Said one police inspector: "Riesel made a lot of enemies...
Alec Goodrich is a tawny-eyed, well-heeled, philandering novelist. He lives in a wild part of Wales surrounded by "strange, Wagnerian scenery" and with the loud Atlantic roaring on his doorstep. He defies the Inspector (and shocks Harold) by traveling first-class with a third-class ticket and investing his money, his sacred money, in absurd companies...