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...committee could detect no rigid pattern of Communist interrogation, and was often impressed by the inconsistencies of the Communist enemy. "Sometimes he showed contempt for the man who readily submitted to bullying. The prisoner who stood up to the bluster, threats and blows . . . might be dismissed with a shrug ..." Some of the P.W.s who appeased the Communists by giving them "biographical sketches" later found that the Communists used the documents against them, punishing them for "lying"; many of those who signed confessions were later informed that they were liable for new prosecution as war criminals...
...believes that it is divinely inspired by God to lead its people into a Republican promised land where white supremacy will be permanent . . . This [Federation's] government is inspired by 2,000 years of history and believes we should find a solution to our problems on a British pattern and founded on racial cooperation...
...Good Names. Kayser's quick climb, a one-year wonder in an ailing industry, is cut right to the pattern of rangy (6 ft. 4 in., 200 lbs.) 47-year-old Abe Feinberg's whole career. A hosiery salesman's son who went to work at 14 "cleaning 17 cuspidors a day for 17 underwear salesmen," Feinberg rose to be a cuspidor user in two years, quit his $75-a-week salesman's job when it interfered with his evening studies at Fordham Law School. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees...
...England, and especially Massachusetts, stood out as exceptions to this year's overall U.S. pattern of moderate polio outbreaks (averaging 25% fewer cases than last year). Massachusetts had 1,200, more than ten times as many as at this time in 1954, and 36 deaths, in what state officials conceded to be a "mild epidemic." Other New England states had only moderate increases...
MEAT PRICES will probably go up this fall despite mountainous supplies of beef, lamb and pork. Reason: rising labor costs resulting from the 14? hourly wage boost given packinghouse workers by four big packers (Wilson, Swift, Armour, Cudahy). If (as seems likely) the 14?-an-hour increase becomes the pattern for this year's labor contracts, the cost to the nation's packing industry will be $50 million annually, more than the whole industry's profits...