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...history's sharpest justifications of far-ranging congressional investigations were penned during the years when Congress was probing into governmental corruption and big business. The respective authors: Justices Felix Frankfurter and Hugo Black, who last week joined the Earl Warren majority in sharply condemning the broad range of questioning pursued by the House Committee on Un-American Activities...
...will be made by scientists skilled in scientific observation, but for the experimental and risky first flight, Space Surgeon Stapp (TIME, Sept. 12, 1955) wanted a young man with quick, trained reflexes and elastic endurance to cope with emergencies. "I didn't want much," says Stapp. "Just the sharpest pilot I ever met." Kittinger, the man selected, already knew his way in the air. He was an F-100 pilot with 3,600 jet hours, but Stapp had him take special training for ten months. He qualified as a balloon pilot, also got a paratrooper's rating...
...Republicans fretted and fumed about their party's budget split, a Democrat with a wedge stayed behind the scenes, prying and jimmying for hours on end with the sharpest touch in politics. He was Texas' Lyndon Baines Johnson, 48, majority leader of the U.S. Senate, who has been so successful in exploiting G.O.P. troubles that he has almost hidden his own party's more basic division...
...waiting rooms. There has been no evidence of any direct contact with Gomulka; Education Minister Wladyslaw Bienkowski is usually mentioned as the go-between. Two members of the Polish hierarchy closest to him-they accompanied him to Rome-are Bishop Zygmut Choromanski, Secretary of the Episcopate and the sharpest brain and bargainer in the Polish church, and Auxiliary Bishop Antoni Baraniak of Wyszynski's own see of Gniezno, who was imprisoned just before the cardinal and is considered perhaps his closest friend...
Religious Juggernaut? Meanwhile, the Christian Century reached its 40,000 subscribers with one of the sharpest attacks on Billy yet made anywhere-far rougher than the criticism from Roman Catholics three weeks ago (TIME, May 6). With well-bred disdain, the Century regarded Billy as a sinister and strange "new junction of Madison Avenue and the Bible Belt . . . Radio and television will be carrying the voice and image of blond sincerity into homes long conditioned to recognize packaged virtue and desperate now for almost any kind of sincerity. It simply cannot fail. With trainloads of well-saved out-of-town...