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...into St. Joseph's Hospital at Phoenix, but after a month she was almost totally blind. Not until then did a cautious Yaqui Indian sidle up and tell Joe what had really happened: "She's had a curse put on her by a powerful witch." Joe snorted. But when the Yaqui recommended that he see a Puerto Rican bruja about a cure. Joe went. The witch knew all about Josefina's case, and offered to save one of her eyes for $100. Joe paid...
TIME's correspondents often found themselves in exciting or bizarre situations. Alexander Campbell, who covered a large section of the African continent from his headquarters in Johannesburg, sent in the most unusual expense-account items after a trip into the African bush: "one trip to see witch" and "white goat for witch." And Rebecca Franklin received the most unexpected accolade, when Georgia's House of Representatives passed a vote of congratulations on her promotion to contributing editor of TIME...
Head of the Government Department Rupert Emerson '22 yesterday blasted the current wave of "hysterical witch-hunting" and its accompanying fear in academic circles...
Dwight Eisenhower's State of the Union message made clear that Brownell had already begun a major policy job: the drafting of a new loyalty and security system to replace the Truman loyalty debris. No witch hunter, Brownell nonetheless will be firm on loyalty and security...
...Daily Telegraph, Sunday Observer, or the Manchester Guardian, where U.S. coverage is quieter and more complete, Britons do get a much more rounded picture of the U.S. But even the Times, instead of trying to explain the problem of Communists in government, often brushes the whole matter off as "witch hunting" and a shrill campaign . . . against 'spies and saboteurs' who are widely imagined to be imperiling the security of the U.S." Added the chorus of criticisms of the U.S. are such anti-American weeklies as the New Statesman & Nation, which recently said of the indictment of Owen Lattimore...