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...Senate Foreign Relations Committee, tried loyally to answer a five-hour Republican barrage, but in doing it, he was forced to double back on his own statement of seven days before that it would be "wise" to defend Formosa. Republican Floor Leader Kenneth Wherry, the party's on-tap isolationist spokesman, said that Britain's recognition of Red Peking afforded "even more compelling reasons for cutting this [ECA] spending to support British socialism...
Agent Robert J. Wirth, also a lawyer, admitted he had destroyed some wire-tap memoranda although Judy's lawyer was trying to raise the wire-tap question at Judy's first trial. At the time, explained Lawyer Wirth, he was "not familiar" with the details of the 12-year-old Supreme Court decision forbidding wiretapping evidence in federal trials...
Buffoonery or Eccentricity? The FBI's records showed that at least one prime piece of evidence-Judith Coplon's plan to go to New York on the day she was arrested there with Gubichev-had come through a tap on the Coplons' Brooklyn telephone...
...school's benefit (with one local dealer donating three new cars as prizes) became one of Monterrey's big annual events. Grocers, butchers and other small merchants responded generously to campaigns aimed at giving all local business a stake in the school. With more than enough on tap to meet its 60% operating deficit, Tecnológico last week got a rousing boost from outside. In Mexico City, 600 miles to the south, executives in the U.S. industrial colony (including branches of General Electric, Westinghouse, Goodyear) opened a drive for $58,000 to boost the school...
...instance, the tap dancing of Fred Astaire, who clicks his heels and tocs through several excellent routines. In the best of these he dances better while playing a drunk than most of the hoofers could cold sober. Throughout "Holiday Inn" Astaire plays a foil for Bing Crosby. In this film, a Paramount re-release, Crosby's voice and hairline are still intact. He sings an excellent selection of Irving Berlin tunes--"Easter Parade," "Be Careful, It's My Heart," and, of course "White Christmas." The result is like a greeting card: it has no art and no subtlety...