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Until he landed in prison on a two-to three-year rap for passing a bad check, John Corpier, 32, thought of himself as "a pretty worthless fellow." The son of a Texas dirt farmer, he left school after the eighth grade, worked at a prewar Civilian Conservation Corps camp until he joined the Air Force at 17. Though he made a respectable war record as a B-17 waist gunner in Europe, he never seemed able to settle down once he had left the service. He worked at radio and TV repair jobs in Alaska, Seattle and Palo Alto...
Nikita Khrushchev told the Western powers to keep their hands off the Communist world, particularly East Germany lest it become necessary to "rap your knuckles...
...warn the capitalist countries, do not joke with us, do not try to test us like you did in Hungary with the putsch. You think of doing it, not only in Hungary, but also maybe in East Germany. Be careful. We are not saints and if necessary we will rap your knuckles...
...Angeles' onetime Racketeer Mickey Cohen, loose since 1955 after serving a stretch on an income-tax rap. and now trying to go straight as a horticulturist operating an outfit called Michael's Greenhouses, Inc., had a Manhattan rendezvous with Evangelist Billy Graham. Preacher Graham, though deploring the publicity about their meeting, acknowledged that he had first gone to work on Mickey in 1949, now has high hopes that Cohen will repent in earnest. Said Cohen: "I am very high on the Christian way of life. Billy came up, and before we had food he said-What...
Taking the Rap. The post-Molotov policy in the satellites and Egypt has been one of Nikita Khrushchev's staggering failures, but apparently it has not yet weakened his hold on the first party secretaryship. Last week the Central Committee, meeting in Moscow, decided that Shepilov should take the rap and sent him back to his secretarial duties after only eight months as Foreign Minister. His successor: Andrei A. Gromyko...