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...searched for causes & effects. It was about that time, with some Sunday articles in mind and looking for an angle, that he made what he thought was a major discovery. He had begun his search by dividing the contemporary world into two parts-into the democracies where the state existed for man, into the authoritarian governments where man existed for the state. To Reporter Streit an arresting fact emerged: the democracies controlled two-thirds of the world's trade, most of the world's natural resources. The democracies owned the earth and didn't know...
...charges against the U.S. had cited cases of peonage and labor under forced contracts in Maine, Connecticut, Texas, Arkansas, Georgia and California. They had revealed that thousands of "wetbacks" (i.e., Mexican laborers who wade the Rio Grande in search of work in the U.S.) lived in squalor and poverty, sometimes were paid as little as $8 a week...
...before his birthday, slim, stooped Editor Hunter plodded through six inches of snow in search of news. His red-rimmed eyes shone brightly through his glasses, grey hair poked out from under a battered fedora, and he needed a shave. Spotting a friend, Hunter, who is deaf, gave a high-pitched shout: "Any news, Bill?" Then Hunter handed him a scratch pad and a pencil. While Bill jotted down the news, Hunter read over his shoulder, now & then shouting fresh questions until he had pumped his informant...
...Search & Seizure. California law aggravates the rash of malpractice suits: one trick provision compels the defendant doctor to serve as an expert witness for the plaintiff. The epidemic in Los Angeles is especially severe because Southern California is full of elderly hypochondriacs. Says Dr. Regan; "We have so many people in the fringe group here-the lunatic fringe, that is." Examples: one woman, accusing her surgeon of having left needles in her arm, stuck 26 sewing needles into herself; another woman, claiming that she had been examined without her consent, sued under the Fourth Amendment guarantee against unlawful search & seizure...
Across the U.S., the search was on for a boy with left-parted hair, jug ears, freckles, dimples and a saucer-sized grin. When introduced to the moppet public at Easter, he will be dubbed the living "Howdy Doody Boy," and showered with 500 gifts to celebrate the 500th performance last week of the Howdy Doody Show (weekdays, 5:30 p.m. E.S.T...