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...took four years, but Brabham began to show up front end first-at the finish line. He beat Stirling Moss for the world championship in 1959, won it again in 1960, and by the start of this year had won a total of seven Grand Prix races-more than any active driver except Scotland's own two-time world champion, Jimmy Clark (TIME cover, July...
...Shaddup!' " But it was not a Hollywood sound stage they were on last week. It was a picturesque, narrow street in the ancient Wiltshire village of Castle Combe, which was also cluttered with sound trucks, mobile generators, scriptmen, Actor Anthony Newley, giant arc lamps that almost topped the moss-grown roofs of the cottages, and a herd of wondering, chattering villagers pressed against the chicken-wire fence, hastily constructed to keep them at bay. Nor is Castle Combe just any pretty village. It is-or was-the prettiest village in England, as certified by polls conducted by the British...
...freshman Congressman from California, Democrat John Emerson Moss Jr. sought some information from the U.S. Civil Service Commission-and was turned down. A quiet but combative former businessman, Moss complained to fellow Representatives, discovered that they too were being denied routine requests for facts by federal agencies. Appalled at such self-serving censorship by a Government that supposedly serves the people, Moss determined to do something about...
That was in 1953. Last week, Moss's unremitting campaign to open bureaucratic files finally paid off. By a roll-call vote of 307 to 0, the House passed a bill that goes farther than any previous legislation toward ensuring the citizen's right to know what his Federal Government is doing...
...Moss, now 53, won his first round in 1955 when, at his suggestion, a special House subcommittee on Government information was created-with Moss as chairman. The subcommittee quietly launched an exhaustive investigation that yielded countless case histories of secretive bureaucracy. The subcommittee discovered, for instance, that a bow-and-arrow weapon devised by a Pentagon civilian employee during World War II had proved useless-but by 1958 was still classed as a military secret. Moss forced many agencies to discard meaningless security precautions and marshaled bipartisan support for revision of the 1946 law that permits federal officials to clam...