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...creampuff-plump President James G. Cross, who had spent union dough lavishly for personal expenses, including upkeep of a girl friend several times convicted as a tart. After studying the testimony, theA.F.L.-C.I.O.'s rock-firm President George Meany ordered the 160,000-member union to get rid of Cross or else. Last week the Bakery Workers' Cross-bossed executive board balked at the order. Meany & Co. promptly suspended the union, sending it to join Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters in exile from the housecleaning united labor movement...
...Democrats plan to run for reelection. Five of these are from the South and the other six--Kennedy, Symington, Mansfield, Chavez, Pastore, and Jackson--seem reasonably sure of reelection. Democrats will probably unseat a few Republican incumbents;--in Arizona, for instance, Governor Ernest MacFarland will likely rid the senate of Barry Gold-water...
...potent drug, chlorothiazide (trade-named Diuril by manufacturers Merck Sharp & Dohme, though not yet released for general prescription use), taken by mouth, can be highly effective as a diuretic, stimulating the body to get rid of excess water, which causes edema (dropsy) in patients with enlarged and failing hearts. Columbia University's Dr. John H. Laragh and Dr. Felix E. Demartini reported that chlorothiazide works well by itself, also increases the effectiveness of other diuretics when given in small-dose combinations. In three cases where no drug worked alone, a combination did the trick. The A.H.A...
After he became Prime Minister of the new African state of Ghana, ambitious Kwame Nkrumah quickly discovered that the simplest way to deal with political opponents is to get rid of them. When two Moslem party leaders in Ashanti balked at Nkrumah's authority. Nkrumah rushed a bill through Parliament authorizing their deportation (TIME, Oct. 14). After hearing their appeals, Justice H. C. Smith, a Briton, ruled last week that Nkrumah was within his rights. "Since the Ghana constitution contains no safeguarding of fundamental rights." Smith wrote, "the court must uphold the law." The constitution allows Parliament to pass...
...rods as antennae 2.4 to 2.9 meters (7.9 to 9.5 ft.) long. When the carrier rocket was fired, the rods were folded back against the sphere, but swung outward on swivels when the satellite reached its orbit. The sphere is filled with nitrogen gas, presumably to help it get rid of the heat developed by the electrical equipment. If the satellite is punctured by a meteor, the gas pressure will fall at a rate that could tell the size of the meteor hole...