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...adults." Flanders wanted the Mundt committee to examine "the real heart of the mystery": the personal relationships between McCarthy, Counsel Cohn and Private Schine. Conn "seems to have an almost passionate anxiety" to retain Schine, observed Senator Flanders. As to Schine, he continued: "At times [McCarthy] seems anxious to rid himself of the whole mess, and then again, at least in the presence of his assistant [Cohn], he strongly supports the latter's efforts to keep the Army private's services available. Does the assistant have some hold on the Senator? Can it be that our Dennis...
...payment plan, the Government would allow the market price of butter to drop to its natural level, then pay butter manufacturers the difference between market and support level prices. Even the best of the plans, said Benson, would cost the Government from 50? to 75? per Ib. to get rid of the butter...
...proposed a twin vote of censure against colonialism and "aggressive Communism." in place of Nehru's resolution. Nehru, who has always fought Communism at home, angrily retorted that Asians should not disturb external relations "with friendly powers." Once more Pakistan's Ali lashed at Nehru: "We can rid ourselves of colonialism," he said, "but any country that is overrun by Communism may be lost forever...
...want to perform a modern violin score, get Spivakovsky. Temperamentally, that was fine for the fiddler, but to programmers and booking agents too much modern music is not good business. Tossy Spivakovsky learned that there was such a thing as an unbalanced portfolio, successfully set out to rid himself of the modernist...
...have become reality, from the pyramids to Grand Coulee Dam. From those that have not yet come true, popular-science Writer Willy Ley has compiled a new book, Engineers' Dreams (Viking; $3.50). In it, he tells some of the projects modern engineers might accomplish-if they could get rid of political, social and economic...