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...past membership in the Communist Party in filling out job questionnaires. A wartime theoretical physicist at Bendix Aviation, he became a senior research engineer in CalTech's jet-propulsion laboratory in 1946, has had only a research fellow's job at CalTech since 1949, when Army Intelligence withdrew his clearance to do confidential work. The FBI did not link him to Spy Courier Gold, or to espionage...
...last week, both fears had been allayed. For months, bright Hugh Gaitskell, Britain's Minister of State for Economic Affairs, had carried on delicate negotiations. Observers guessed that Gaitskell was inching toward agreement with the continental nations when his mentor, Sir Stafford Cripps, gradually withdrew from the talks and went off on a vacation. Gaitskell and his OEEC colleagues finally worked out a scheme to save Britain from an excessive dollar drain. It agreed to admit not merely Britain but the entire sterling area to EPU, and to provide special safeguards against a run on Britain's dollar...
Ordeal for Hire. In San Antonio, Charles M. Dickson withdrew as a candidate for the state legislature, explained that his health would not permit him to go through a "stump-speaking, barbecue-eating, beer-drinking and baby-kissing campaign...
...makes an especially heavy impact on the more impressionable youngsters. One young man, formerly a devoted Hitlerite, saw his dreams crash down in 1945. First he contemplated suicide, then he withdrew into complete apathy. By way of a soccer club, he got into the FDJ. Says he now: "Sometimes I'm terribly afraid I might be wrong again. I couldn't stand a second mental bankruptcy. No! The Communists must be right. Look at their successes-look at China...
Phillip L. Harris, a graduate student who withdrew from the University a month ago because of illness, was found dead yesterday in his apartment on Chauncy Street in Cambridge. Police said that William L. MacDonald 1G discovered Harris with a Navy type gas mask covering his face. A hose connected the mask to a jet in the kitchen stove from which gas was flowing...