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...atmosphere of national hysteria. Abroad, U.S. troops were battling in Korea; at home, Senator Joseph McCarthy was waving lists of "Communists" he said had invaded the State Department. The Rosenberg prosecution had little trouble presenting an apparently crushing case against the couple, as well as against Co-Defendant Morton Sobell, whose own account of the trial and his nearly 18 years in prison was published in On Doing Time (1974). The Rosenbergs repeatedly took the Fifth Amendment when asked if they belonged to the Communist Party. Greenglass, the Government's star witness, testified that his brother...
After making several "middle-of-the-road" or "liberal" cabinet appointments. President Ford has moved to appease the uneasy conservative wing of his party by installing Hathaway as sucessor to Commerce Department-bound Rogers C.B. Morton. For good reason environmentalists have attacked the Hathaway nomination and plan to battle it in the Senate, where Hathaway's confirmation hearings opened Monday. Still, if the Senate acts customarily, Hathaway will gain easy approval...
When DH John Gibadlo came up with the score 8-7 this prompted another argument by Park, who lost again, Luckily for Harvard, Gibadlo flew out. Park brought in LeBlane who got Morton to ground out to second baseman Thomas to end the game...
Other people are using the amendments to extract information about historic events, for publication in newspapers and scholarly journals. That was the basis for 30 requests by Morton Halperin, who is working on a study of Government secrecy and national security. He asked for information from the FBI, the CIA, the State Department and the National Security Council. To his surprise, he has found that "generally, the agencies are proceeding in good faith. We've received much more than I would have predicted...
...genial Secretary of the Interior Rogers C.B. Morton has been moved to Commerce. The Republican conservative nominated to replace him is Wyoming's former Governor Stanley K. Hathaway, who allowed, among other things, blanket slaughter of golden eagles erroneously believed to be major predators of livestock...