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...profession, and were calculated . . . to hurt the very cause in which he and all the rest of us are interested." Navyman Pugh backed water, but not much. "If I have offended any one for whom no offense was intended," he said, "then it is to that group [that] . . . I owe an apology . . . My critical remarks . . . were leveled at an element or group in the medical profession who have not served in the armed forces and who persist in contending that their unwillingness to serve is [because] the service is not attractive enough for them...
...Armand Chankalian, administrative assistant to U.S. Attorney Lane. Chankalian testified that not until 1950 had he come to realize that his good friend, Tommy Luchese, had so lurid a past. Then, said Chankalian, he had told Luchese, "I introduced you to some very nice people, and I owe an obligation to them . . . I'm sorry, I can't see you any more . . ." Informed that his car had been seen in front of Luchese's home four times after he last admitted to having seen his three-fingered friend, Chankalian was dumfounded. Said...
...blame the African National Congress (A.N.C.) for the Negro bloodshed. They liken congress leaders to Kenya's Mau Mau terrorists, and accuse them of Communism. Actually, though there are Communists in A.N.C., such leaders as James Njongwe and Dr. James S. Moroka, the devoutly Christian president of A.N.C., owe far more to Gandhi than they do to Marx. Their policy, such as it is, is to protest apartheid (racial segregation) laws by a peaceful "civil disobedience" campaign, which they hope will catch the eye of the U.N.* Since the campaign started last June, 26,000 "passive resisters," black, half...
...Wisconsin, Clifford Lord has gone a long way toward his goal. But he knows he is still just beginning. Eventually, he hopes, his society will become a clearinghouse for local histories from all over the U.S. "When we are assuming leadership of half the world," says he, "we owe it to the world and to ourselves to know more about the detailed workings of the American experiment...
...North Shore Baptists owe their precious window to Baptist Millionaire James Lewis Kraft, 77-year-old founder of Kraft Foods, and an ardent lapidary in his spare time. Cheesemaker Kraft began collecting rare natural stones one day in the '20s when he was out driving and saw some people scrambling up a mountain. Told that they were "rockhounds" hunting for rarities, he joined the group, has been a rockhound ever since...