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...around a courtroom. A New York lawyer, Greenspun moved to Nevada in 1946, later became a pressagent for a Las Vegas gambling house. In 1950 he bought the Sun property, including $2,500 in cash assets, with a $1,000 down payment, then took off after Democratic Senator Pat McCarran. Last year Greenspun won an $80,000 out-of-court settlement from some local gambling houses when he sued on charges that McCarran had conspired with them to take their advertising out of the Sun (TIME...
Long a nationally controversial figure on the academic freedom issue, Mather has tangled verbally during the last few years with Senators McCarthy of Wisconsin, Jenner of Indiana, and McCarran of Nevada. He testified last February before the Massachusetts Commission investigating Communism in education...
...meeting in Italy, was directed not against the U.S.S.R., but against the U.S.A. The geneticists did not want to be exposed to the harassment and delay that await foreign scientists who try to visit the U.S. Other scientific organizations have taken the same attitude. Largely because of the McCarran Act, the once broad stream of foreign scientists bringing their ideas and knowledge to the U.S. has almost...
...McCarran, had been given a ranking place to the left of Bayar. Pat purpled, and refused, in a modulated roar, to sit anywhere except next to the guest of honor. "Since when," sputtered McCarran, "does the mayor of a city come before a U.S. Senator...
State Department protocol officers whispered that Baker was the host, after all, and pointed out that McCarran would have the honor of introducing Bayar. "I will not!" raged Pat. "I'll walk out first." The day was saved by Orhan Eralp, director general of Turkey's Foreign Ministry, who has been acting as President Bayar's interpreter. Eralp offered McCarran his seat, at Bayar's side, and perched on a stool behind the President. Pat agreed to stay. After the dinner President Bayar offered Mayor Baker his thanks and sympathies. Through the displaced interpreter, he said...