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...close of a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee hearing on the U.S. ammunition shortage (TIME, April 13 et seq.), Virginia's Harry Byrd clipped such excerpts of testimony and mailed them off to General Douglas MacArthur in Connecticut for comment. Last week, like a thunderclap from Olympus, came Mac-Arthur's reply...
...agent who had made the contact stepped out carrying the dope in a paper bag. The Tribune, owned by the family of California's Senator William F. Knowland, spread its exclusive pictures across Page One and eight columns inside. The arrested man turned out to be Roy Mac Arthur, 31, a pilot for Transocean Airlines, who has been flying a C-54 between California and Japan on the Korean air-freight run. The pilot, said Braumoeller, had been bringing in from Japan each trip as much as four pounds of uncut heroin, worth $32,000 in the underworld. After...
...called An Fear a Phōs Balbhan (The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife), a one-act farce adapted from Rabelais by Librettist Tomás Mac Anna. In a surrealistic setting showing both the inside and outside of a peasant's cottage, the hero hires a doctor to cure his speechless wife. The doctor does this by telling her of her husband's carryings-on with other women. When she finally speaks, she does it so abusively that the hero asks to be made deaf, and the curtain falls as he peacefully sings that deafness...
...most famous field bosses, James MacPherson, 62, as he hunted for oil ashore. At a cost of $30 million, MacPherson's long-futile quest became the most expensive in Middle East history. After five dry holes, oilmen all over the Middle East joked: "Four more holes will give Mac a nine-hole golf course." From Cairo to Dhahran, their stock greeting became: "Mac, struck anything yet?" The answer was always...
...attacks since the war's end. Ten Arabs were wounded and the village muktar (headman) killed. In violation of the armistice, the Israelis then began sending warplanes over Jordan, followed a few days later with the seizure of a vacated Arab college in no man's land. MAC officers who tried to investigate were obstructed by the Israelis...