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...sharpest thorns in East Germany's Communist hide is a 14-month-old underground organization directed from West Berlin. The Investigating Committee of Free Lawyers of the Soviet Zone was founded by Dr. Theo Friedenau, 39-year-old lawyer, who has a 500,000 East mark Communist price tag on his head. His organization of 3.000 East German lawyers, judges and public officials exposes Soviet zone perversions of justice and tries to frighten Communist officials by reporting their crimes to Friedenau in Berlin...
...uneasy view of the future, this week got panicky when they read General MacArthur's ominous words about the Chinese Communists (see WAR IN ASIA). In the surge of selling, the Dow-Jones industrial average dropped more than five points, to 221.85, before steadying. The break was the sharpest in one day since mid-July. It dropped the market 9.96 points under the bull-market high reached only four weeks...
...boom in business had an obvious effect on prices. Item: despite prospects of a 99 million pig crop this year, third highest in U.S. history, retail pork prices last month edged up 9.8%. They helped push the cost of living index up .8%, its sharpest advance in 22 months...
Liquor by the Mouthful. Editor Dorson has searched through records of the colonial century for its sharpest incidents, sharpened them still further with careful editing, and made of them a volume that brings the colonial century almost too keenly alive for some 20th Century tastes. The tales of Indian captivity, in particular, are about as easy to take as a tomahawk in the skull: babies bashed to death against trees, a prisoner ripped in half by the main force of some 20 of his captors, another with thumbs cut off and a sharp stake driven...
Atom Bishop? Revai's sharpest blast was directed at Hungary's 11,532 members of religious orders. Cried Revai: "These reactionaries constantly spread imperialist propaganda, going from house to house spreading rumors, forming rosary fraternities, Bible-reading circles and hymn-singing groups...