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...chairman), a report declaring that violent movies are potential "triggers" for juvenile delinquency. ¶ Learned, to its general surprise, that John Maragon, a crony of Harry Truman's cronies who was convicted of perjury in 1951 in connection with the influence-peddling scandals (TIME, Aug. 15, 1949 et seq.), went to work last week as a $1.61-an-hour laborer in the House of Representatives' folding room, where printed matter is made ready for mailing. Pennsylvania's Democratic Representative Herman P. Eberharter said that he had written a letter to the House Democratic Patronage Committee recommending Maragon...
...trial in Montgomery was the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., 27, pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church and leader of the Negro boycott against the Montgomery bus company (TIME, Jan. 16 et seq.}. King was the first of 90 defendants (including 24 ministers) to be tried under an Alabama law (enacted in 1921 as an antilabor measure) making it a misdemeanor to conspire "without a just cause or legal excuse" to hinder any company in its conduct of business...
...time study man with a ticking stopwatch can show up on a factory floor and in an hour bring a giant production process to a halt; an argument over time studies is one of the biggest causes of the five-month-old strike at Westinghouse (TIME, Oct. 24 et seq.). Of the 3,399 grievance cases the American Arbitration Association handled last year, 23% were caused by disputes over job standards, wage incentives and time studies. In the past six years "more than 25% of all man-hours lost from work stoppage were directly caused by arguments about measuring...
Many Americans, led by Ohio's Republican Senator John Bricker, fear that the U.S. Constitution's treaty-making provision can be abused to violate the liberties of citizens. Bricker has proposed several amendments (TIME, July 13, 1953 et seq.) aimed at closing what he deems to be a dangerous constitutional loophole; in 1954, one version of the Bricker Amendment failed of Senate adoption by a single vote. Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee, voting n to 2, approved and sent to the Senate for action this year a new proposed treaty amendment to the Constitution. Its sponsor...
Employees of Cincinnati's Enquirer struck a soft spot in the hearts of newsmen everywhere nearly four years ago when they raised $7,600,000 to rescue the paper from sale to the opposition and to give themselves a share in its ownership (TIME, June 9, 1952 et seq.). Last week, though the Enquirer (circ. 206,408) is Cincinnati's most prosperous daily, the experiment came to failure. A block of securities that ensures working control of the paper went on sale to the highest bidder...