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Ulbricht dared not crack down too hard on the students. Instead, he pinned the rap on Wolfgang Harich, charging that the young teacher had acted under the influence of "reactionaries" in Hungary and Poland. A handsome, soft-looking youngster in Berlin's World War II "high society," Harich had studied philosophy, turned Buddhist under the influence of Japanese embassy friends, and later, when the draft caught up with him, deserted the German army. A friendly general saved him from being shot, and he turned Roman Catholic. After the Russians came, he switched to Marxism, was made lecturer in historical...
...accuracy of the others' methods. He says also that their samples are usually unreliable. In special surveys, he has tested the accuracy of the other methods by the yardstick of his own and says that all three fall wide of the mark. Nielsen's rivals-who also rap each other's techniques-seize on the fact that Nielsen's national system measures the tuning of sets, not the number of viewers, and does not account for the chance that the set might be playing to unheeding householders or even to an empty living room. ARB insists...
...Rough. In Wayne. N.J.. despite his explanation that he was sober and merely lost. Jesse Abraham was jugged on a 30-day drunken driving rap after police found him motoring on the Passaic County golf course...
...white hunter was Wyler's inquisitive camera, peering through all the flora and fauna into the hurt eyes of the cuckolded husband (John Mills, making his American TV debut), or capturing the guilt written across the sallow face of the barrister (Michael Rennie) who helps Leslie beat the rap. With pace and polish, Wyler distilled all the steamy Maugham atmosphere and dry rot of colonial life, brought believability to some papier-mache archetypes. Oldtime Cinemactress Anna May Wong, as the blackmailing mistress of the murdered cad, peered with good effect through the inevitable beaded curtains...
...George Murphy, the convention entertainment director, singers of all shapes and sizes appeared to entertain the delegates. At the drop of a G.O.P. hero's name, sign-toting Young Republicans in varsity sweaters snake-danced down Cow Palace aisles like half time at College Stadium. At the rap of a gavel from Permanent Chairman Joe Martin, the demonstrators vanished like so many genii...