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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
i0 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
August 11. 1945
(It was Saturday)
T3 Richard D. Jewett, former
Mail Tribune employee, now in
Naples, Italy, expects to make a
one week tour of Switzerland.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: In Klamath
county millworkers have started
piling up at the picket lines, in
stead of piling lumber.
80 YEARS AGO
August 11. 1935
(It was Sunday)
Three - hundred fifty men,
mostly CCC's, battle a grass firQ
on Roxy Ann's south slope;
Southern Oregon Art associa
tion to start free art classes to
day. 80 YEARS AGO
August 11, 1925
0 (It was Tuesday)
Crater Lake stage driver fined
$50 for speeding.
Barney Oldfield named ref
eree of auto races to start hsre
Aug. 16. "
40 YEARS AGO
August 11, 1915
(It was Wednesday)
Twenty-one incendiary fires
started near Trail.
Public schools to open Sept. 6.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. The trend in movie theaters
just now is for more or fewer
double features, or just about
the same as always?
2. Most persons not using a
private car to travel between
U.S. cities these days go by train,
plane or bus?
3. Your chances of getting can
cer are seriously affected by the
kind of food you eat; right or
wrong?
4. About 15, 30, 45 or 60 per
cent of all corn grown in the
U.S. goes into hogs?
5. Which one of these South
American countries has no sea-
coast: Bolivia, Columbia, Ecua
dor, Uruguay, Venezuela?
6. Of the 12 states completely
wet (no area dry by local option)
more are in the East," South,
Middle West or West?
7. Who in the Bible was the
husband of Sarah?
Th answers: 1. Fewer. 2. Most
by train. 3. Wrong. 4. About 45
per cent. 5. Bolivia. 6. More (6)
in the West. 7. Abraham.
FCC Delays Action
On KBES Change
The federal communications
commission has again delayed
action on a proposed change of
transmitter site for KBES-TV, it
was disclosed recently.
The FCC considered the
change recently but postponed
action till further information
could be obtained from the sta
tion Farlipr. the commission
noSfied KBES-TV that action
was being delayed pending a
decision by commission mem
bers on a proposed new ruling.
The new regulation,' if ap
proved, would limit location of
transmitters to within five miles
of the city? to be served.
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Socialism vs Social Progress
If one cares to do a bit of political research it will
be found that the warning cry of "creeping socialism"
is nothing new.
The same general political and economic group
that is now calling all the federal power projects the
invention of the devil and 'Carl Marx had the same
fear of a federal income tax, not so many years ago.
The argument then was a democratic government
in a free society had no right to take away a portion,
large or small, of the money honestly earned by a free
and independent citizen. That was confiscation
closely associated with the divine right of kings and
a baronial feudal system.
MOREOVER that theory was sustained for many
years by the US Supreme Court. In fact a con
stitutional amendment had to be passed to validate an
income tax. That was in 1913, and the protests and
lamentations from certain political quarters heard
then have not disappeared entirely today, particularly
at income-tax paying time. There are many who still
long for the good old "no income tax" days to return.
NOT only was a federal income tax opposed as
"socialistic" (the word is now New Dealism) but
the records will show old-age pensions, social secur
ity, unemployment and even bank deposit insurance
were likewise fought by a valiant minority. These
measures were termed as an alien and un-American
philosophy which would destroy individual initiative
and thrift, kill private enterprise, and create an idle
dependent class which would in due course sink the
shiD-of-state, and the end of the world the free
world, would be here !
O THERE is nothing really new to this revival of
- . TT 1
the fear of socialism as the next step m uncie
Sam's degeneration, if something radical is not done
to stop it.
Chief Justice Earl Warren of the US Supreme
Court explained the revival very clearly and succinct
ly the other day when he remarked that too many
good American citizens fail to distinguish between
Karl Marx socialism and social progress.
That is the point.
Most of these social reforms did originate in
Europe, principally in England -and Germany, but
not under anv socialistic reeimes. but under monar
chies. These benefits to the
ed, not from any particular idealistic urge, out as a
practical matter of governmental self interest, safety
and security.
THEREFORE this department is not greatly con-
cerned over the final fate of public power in this
country as a result of the revival of this socialist scare.
The law bf action and reaction of ebb and
flow will have its way in the field of social progress
as in all other affairs of men.
We now happen to be in a period of "ebb" that's
all, and naturally the forces of reaction intend to
make the most of it.
But in spite of the Hoover report and- the
Grants Pass Courier we expect to see TV A, Bon
neville, Grand Coulee and all the other public-power
projects now in operation, continue on the job ; and
we even expect to see Hells Canyon eventually util
ized as a High Dam federally developed and con-
. t . i t i
trolled not because ot any political upneavai neces
sarily but because as even the Federal Power Com
mission Examiner admitted, and some proponents of
the Idaho Power company also now admit, the
larger federal project would bring "the greatest good
to the greatest number" and the piecemeal private
power project would NOT.
AND that, after all, is the truly American principle
that has prevailed in the past in such matters and
we believe will prevail in the future.
As stated it isn't socialism, it-is social progress.
It isn't destroying our cherished American institutions
it is improving and strengthening them.
It is not going back to Karl Marx or any other
long haired alien theorist of the past, it is only going
back to the founder of the Republican party who
maintained that this is a country, of by and for the
people, and he put special emphasis on the "FOR."
In other words what will benefit the country as a
whole and a majority of the people in it most, will in
the final show down, prevail. R.W.R.
Ike in
"Will President Eisenhower run for a second
term?"
Practically everyone answers that in the affirma
tive. So do we.
But unless we are much mistaken he does not wish
to run, and if he wrere another Calvin Coolidge he
wouldn't.
But unlike "Cal" Ike undoubtedly realizes -that
if he should refuse to run his party wrould be defeated.
And his strong sense of party loyalty, could not
countenance that sort of desertion.
CO UNLESS something quite unforseen occurs, it
will be "Ike and Nixon" as it was before.
Practically everyone thinks that this ticket would
mean election by another landslide.
We are not so sure of that.
But we are sure of this: if Ike is given a second
term he will not enjoy himself as he did in his
first R.W.R.
Thursday. August II, 1955
rank and file were adopt
1956?
Mat t er of Fact by s.wart
WHERE KHRUSHCHEV
STANDS
Editor's Note: This Is the third
of a series of reports summing up
Stewart Alsop's experiences in the
Soviet Union, which he brought out
with him from Moscow.
Moscow There is no ques
tion about it. The Soviet regime
really is a dictatorship without
a dictator, an
authoritar i a n
regime r u n on
a c o m m i t tee
system. This
seems incredi
ble when you
first think
about it a little
more.
Joseph Stalin
was a suspici
ous man by na-
turp naranniar
Stewart Alsop
in nis suspicions towards the end
of his life. He had, moreover,
every reason for knowing that
a patential dictator is a danger
ous man to have around. How
logical, therefore, it is to sup
pose that Stalin would be care
ful to have around him men who
were not potential dictators, men
who were, indeed, congenital No.
2 men.
Remember, furthermore, that
these congenital No. 2 men lived
out their lives, while the old dic
tator still breathed, in nprnptnal
fear of destruction at the hands
of the secret police who were the
instrument of the dictator's will.
How further logical, therefore,
to suppose the No. 2 men would
share one mutual obiect tn
smash the instrument of terror,
to make sure that the ser-rpt rn-
lice would never again place
them in fear of their lives.
AU the known facts fit -this
theory the fact that Beria was
shot, the fact that Malenkov was
not shot, the fact that the secret
police chief is now a career cop,
responsible to the Presidium as
a whole rather than any single
member.
The theory seems aU the more
convincing when you rub shoul
ders with the presidium mem
bers, which anv Westerner in
Moscow can do to his heart's con
tent these days. For the present
Soviet bosses look very much
like the sort of men a suspicious
old dictator, who wanted able
men to serve him but who want
ed no truck with potential rivals,
might gather around him.
SABUROV and Pervukhin look
like brilliant technicians,
which is what they undoubtedly
are. Molotov may be the ablest
of the lot, but he is essentially a
technician too. Voroshilov is ' a
handsome nonentity. M i k o y a n
and Kaganovich are tough, wily
professional political operators,
but they do not have the smell
of supreme power about them.
Nor does Bulganin, although Bul
ganin does have a certain air of
authority, rather in the manner
of a Southern colonel of the mint
julip tradition.
Aside from the new men, that
leaves Khrushchev and Malen
kov, the two most interesting
figures in Russia today. At a re
cent Western reception, this re
porter had a conversation lasting
about ten minutes with Khrush
chev. Khrushchev grabbed my
hand in both of his, and hung on
like a vice for the whole ten
minutes. He went on at some
length about how he had read
what I had written about the So
viet Union; did not like it; but
he hoped that some day I would
be able to find out the truth
about the Soviet Union and teU
the American people.
Alas, when I did my level best
to get a real interview out of
him, he immediately caught on,
and smilingly blocked every ef
fort. But at least this rather un
comfortably close contact made
it possible to sense something of
the quality of the man.
He is really a very ugly man
indeed. He has tiny little eyes,
and a big loose mouth, teeth
copiously decorated with steel
fillings, and a barrel - shaped
figure. But he 'has enormous vi
tality, and the odd charm which
great vitality imparts.
Because he looks so much like
a peasant out of Tolstoy (crossed,
perhaps with a mid-Western iso
lationist politician) and because
he has been known to get pub
licly cock-eyed, there has been,
in this reporter's view, a tenden
cy to underestimate Khrushchev.
If he is a peasant, he is a re
markably shrewd peasant with
an extraordinary talent for sur
vival and a great taste for power.
Malenkov is an entirely dif
ferent manner of man. All the
Soviet rulers now smile constant
ly and with ferocious determina
tion in the presence of Western
ers. But whereas a grin comes
easily to Khrushchev's lips, smil
ing is obviously a frightful ef
fort to the saturnine Malenkov.
DERHAPS recent experiences
have made it difficult for
Malenkov to smile easily. He is
the living embodiment of what
one Westerner here called "the
first Soviet experiment in demo
tion instead of annihilation," and
is it still not entirely certain
that the experiment will succeed.
Even so, some shrewd Western
observers would bet on Malen
kov rather than Khrushchev, be
cause of his youth and unques
tioned intelligence. But this re
porter's instinctive feeling, for
what it is worth, is that Malen
kov is also essentially a techni
cian and a No. 2 man.
This feeling seems" fo be sup
ported by Khrushchev's recent
Alsop
remarks to an Asian ambassa
dor here. Khrushchev volun
teered that the trouble with Mal
enkov was that he wanted to run
Russia like a bureaucrat, with
rules and regulations for every
thing. But, said Khrushchev, you
can't rule Russia that way in
Russia, you have to be ready for
anything, a bad crop failure,
threatened famine, for example.
These remarks very clearly
suggest that Khrushchev has no
doubt that the demoted Malen
kov will stay demoted. They fur
ther suggest that Khrushchev
believes in naked power more
than rules and regulations. To
gether with other evidence of
Khrushchev's increasing power,
they could even be taken to mean
that Khrushchev is on his way to
the position of supremacy that
Stalin once occupied.
Yet a return to the Stalinist
pattern of dictatorship just does
not seem likely, at least in the
near future. For one thing, the
re-imposition of a true Stalinist
dictatorship would require the
reinstatement of the secret po
lice as the dictator's chief instru
ment of terror. The most ex
perienced observers believe that
any attempt to revive the old po
lice terror would unite the army,
the bureaucracy, and even the
Khrushchev - controlled party in
last - ditch opposition.
For another thing and this
is again a matter of extremely
fallible instinct Khrushchev
just does not have the smell of a
dictator about him. Unlikely
though it may seem, the best bet
seems to be that the present com
mittee system will continue for
a long time, with Khrushchev
cast in the role of chairman of
the committee, but not dictator.
Copyright, 1955 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Night Classes Set
For Fall Term at
Southern Oregon
Ashland Night classes of
fered at Southern Oregon college
for the fall quarter of 1955-56
will begin on the evening of
Sept. 26 and run through Dec
20, 1955. Enrollment may take
place on the night the class be
gins and fees may be paid at
that time.
Classes .beginning on Sept. 26
are: Crafts, Wilda; Appreciative
Aspects in Art (G), Miss Ady;
School Organization and Law,
Dr. Bowman; Methods and Ma
terials, Dr. McAulay; Methods
and Research Materials ' in
Science (G), Mr. Diebel; Begin
ning Spanish, Hannan; and Or
chestra, Matthews.
Classes beginning on Sept. 27:
Ceramics, Wilda; Comparative
Religion, Dr. Kreisman; and
World Problems, Dr. Clifford
Miller.
On Sept. 28, these classes will
begin: Second Year Spanish,
Hannan; and Principles and
Techniques of ' Speech Correc
tion, Mulling.
Classes slated to begin Sept.
29 are: Folk Dance, Miss Ben
nett; and Research Studies in
Child Development, Dr. Graham.
Secondary provisional certifi
cation, according to Mrs. Mabel
W. Winston, registrar, may be
granted on completion of the fol
lowing courses taken from the
list above: Appreciation Aspects
in Art, Methods and Materials,
Research Studies in Child De
velopment, Comparative Relig
ion, World Problems, and Prin
ciples and Techniques of Speech
Correction.
Attention was directed by Mrs.
Winston to the opportunity for
those who completed Mr. Han
nan's class in Beginning Spanish
last year to continue their study
in the language by signing up for
his Second Year Spanish course
this year.
Aly Khan Seeking
Visit With Daughter
Reno, Nev. (U.R) An at
torney for Prince Aly Khan
went to court yesterday in an
attempt to force Rita Hayworth
to let Aly take her daughter,
Princess Yasmin, with him for
an 11-week visit.
The attorney; Kenneth Dillon,
said Aly is entitled to have
Yasmin with him for that period
under terms of the divorce Miss
Hayworth got in 1954. Aly is
now in France.
District Judge A. J. Maestretti
set no date for a hearing on
the motion, but indicated it
might be later this month.
"We have got nothing but
stalling in this matter from Miss
Hayworth," said Dillon in ex
plaining why the matter was
brought to court.
Miss Hayworth has repeatedly
said she would not take Yasmin
to France until deportation pro
ceedings against her current
husband, singer Dick Haymes,
were finished. The U.S. govern
ment recently announced it is
dropping the matter.
HEAD CRUSHED
Brookings (U.R) Leo H.
Thompson, 46, of Harbor, Ore.,
was killed yesterday when a
truck on which he was working
slipped off its blocks and
crushed his head.
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Can't We Dream Big?
To the Editor: Don't we dream
big anymore? There is no com
parison between the power po
tential Hells Canyon offers and
the three low dams the Federal
Power Commission has author
ized the Idaho Power company
to build on the Snake river be
low the canyon. Even Secretary
of Interior Douglas McKay, who
should know, has acknowledged
publicly the out-of-state utility
win only offer "almost" as much
power as Hells Canyon, then why
has the power commission set
tled for second-best? Our patriots
boastfully assert we are "the
greatest nation on earth" and I
think most of us agree Oregon
is a pretty wonderful place to
live in but we act as if we have
lost hope. Hells Canyon is our
biggest remaining damsite. If we
must forfeit our right to its de
velopment, let us at least let
those in power know it hurts.
Who knows? They might catch
a spark from our dreams.
Hildur Kane
2166 NW Irving
Portland 10, Ore.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In Geneva which so recently
was the site of the epochal
meeting of the heads of state of
the U.S.A., Britain, France and
Russia another conference has
just opened. It is the United Na
tions conference on peaceful
uses of atomic energy.
At its opening session, it
listened to a message of greeting
from President Eisenhower. In
his mesage, our President called
atomic science the newest and
MOST PROMISING TOOL OF
ALL for the betterment of
human life.
rpHOSE are strong words.
But they are undoubtedly
true.
If we (meaning by that ALL
the people on earth) have the
common, ordinary horse sense
to make of atomic science the
SERVANT OF MAN instead of
the DESTROYER OF MAN
there is practically no limit to
what atomic science can do in
the way of betterment of human
life on this globe.
VTATURALLY enough, I sup
pose, we think of atomic
science in terms of power to run
machines. That is tremendously
important. Machines do the
drudgery that formerly had to
be done by aching human backs
and human arms.
With the DRUDGERY done
by machines, human minds will
have the time in which to create
new things for the betterment of
mankind.
Atomic science opens up vast
new frontiers along that line.
T ET'S consider for a moment
such a simple thing as heat
ing our homes.
Suppose you could drop into
a jigger in your basement (if
you're old-fashioned, or your
utility room if you're more
modern) a lump of uranium
about the size of a peanut and
go on getting heat from it for
years.
That wouft be wonderful.
.Well, it's strictly within the
limits of probability.
At a NOT TOO DISTANT
TIME.
SPEAKING of heat, at the in
stant when it explodes (splits)
the uranium 235 atom has a
temperature of TWO HUNDRED
TRILLION DEGREES.
That's a lot of heat.
All we need to do is to learn
to control it dependably.
That we can do if mankind
can learn the trick of living at
peace instead of GOING TO
war.
CP-
You see
Ike isn't talking through his
hat when he says atomic science
is the newest and most promis
ing tool of all for the betterment
of human life.
LaMoille Pugh Heads
Secretarial Science
Miss LaMoille V. Pugti from
southern California recently ar
rived in Medford to take a posi
tion on the staff of the Robert
son School of Business, accord
ing to Leslie- B. Robertson, man
ager of the school.
Miss Pugh will head the secre
tarial science department of the
school, Robertson said. She was
graduated from Oberlin college,
and Sawyer School of Secre
taries in Los Angeles, and ob
tained her teaching credentials
at Claremont Graduate school.
CZECHS TO GIVE AID
Tokyo (U.R) Czechoslovakia
agreed Wednesday to give eco
nomic aid to Communist Viet
Minn, Radio Peiping reported
today. The Red Chinese broad
cast said that a trade agreement
and an economic aid pact be
tween the two Communist coun
tries were signed at Hanoi in
northern Indochina.
Today and
By Walter
THE PROBLEM OF THE
SECOND TERM
Beginning in the late spring
the President's wav of talking
and acting gave the impression
that he had
decided to run
for a second
term. But last
week, just as
Congress was
adjourning, he
let it be known
that he has. not
made up his
mind, that he
is Duttine off
Walter Lippmann
the decision, and that he is find
ing it a very difficult decision to
make. From what he said last
week to Sen. Bender and a dele
gation of Ohio Republicans and
the next day at his nress con
ference, we have a good idea of
how he sees his problem. Will
ne De too oia in a second term'
to be at his best in coping with
i -n :J i ..?.... I
the President's responsibilities?
The answer to this question,
he has now told us, he must
know what the state of the world
will demand of the President
and he must know what will be
the state of his own energy and
health. Because he does not have
the gift of prophecy, he cannot,
he says, answer this question
now. He is deferring the decis
ion, presumably until early in
the coming winter when he will
size up the prospects at home
and abroad, and will have had a
medical check-up.
liriTH great respect I venture
" to suggest that the President
is making his decision more dif-
iicuit than it ought to be and
indeed that as he is posing the
problem for himself, it is in
soluble. He will not be much
better able to prophecy reliably
next. wintPr than hp i ,; cm.
mer. Nrt nnp will ho
give him a clear preview of what
, . ' . " , M
eive him a clpar nrpvipw nf what
will be happening between 1956
and 1960 to the world and to
himself.
He is deferring the decision
because he would like to know
more about the future than he
is going to be able to know. But
why does he want so much cer
tainty? Because, I believe, he
knows that as things stand so
much deDends UDon his decision.
Too much depends up6n his de
cision. For. like Adenauer but
unlike Churchill, he has not se
lected and trained and promoted
an acceptable and adequate suc
cessor. Because there is no num
ber 2 Republican, a dilemma ex
ists - which must, which does,
trouble his conscience. He alone
is able to be elected. But as he
cannot be sure of completing a
second term, he has it on his
conscience that he mav be mak
ing a President that the 'country
does not want, a President who
cannot carry on where he leaves
off.
By failing to raise up an ac
ceptable successor, the President
has placed himself in a quand
ary: He is indispensable to his
party, but he is vulnerable be-
Mrs. Schmidt-Fine
To Meet Husband
Nevada City, Calif. (U.R)
Mrs. Una Schmidt has decided
that three's a crowd.
Her attorney, Harold Berliner
said Una will meet her airman
husband, Daniel, alone when he
returns Friday from a Chinese
Communist prison camp.
She previously had intended
to bring along her 21-year-old
second husband, Alford Fine, so
the three could talk over their
strange "Enoch Arden" triangle.
Una said she married Fine in
Mexico last year in the belief
that Schmidt was dead.
"Assuming there is an -earlv
meeting, Fine will not be there,"
.tseriiner said. ".His presence
would not be appropriate."
Una. 20. took her 2-vear-old
son, Danny Walter, and went off
to live by herself until her 22-
year-old first husband returns
and she decides whether she
loves him or Fine more.
Schmidt was to leave Hono
lulu late today. He and 10 other
airmen recently released from a
t-ninese Communist prison camp
are due at Travis Air Force
Base, Calif., Friday morning.
Frank Morgan -
Across
I 0CTCKs I
Tomorrow
Lippmann
cause of his advancing age. This
is what makes hi decision so
agonizingly difficult. If there
were another strong Republican
available for Vice President who
was acceptable to the whole mass
of the Eisenhower supporters,
the President would be free of
his main difficulty. He could in
good conscience dtcide to run
again, knowing" that if he falls,
there is a successor who can
carry on. o
Unless he promotes such a
successor, a good Republican
who is satisfactory to the Eisen
hower Republicans and to the
independents and to the Demo
crats, he cannot, I submit, make
a decision which sattafies his
own conscience. If he decides
not to run, he is consigning his
party to almost certain defeat,
If he does run, he will be haunt
ed by the idea that he mav be
using his own popularity to im-
jr.4j un
pose upon the country an un
DODular Prpsirfpnt
O
"DECAUSE so much is at taVi.
it is necessary to speak frank
ly, ihe President himself has
spoken frankly about his aee.
Given good health, that is not a
oisquaiiiication. But it V a com
pelling reason for taking great
care about the candidate for Vice
President.
Now, the trouble wit Mr.
Nixon is that he is at best a re
cent convert to Eisenhor's
kind of Republicanism. In his
political connections and as a
political operator he belongs
with the opposition to Eisen
hower. The great strength of
Eisenhower is, as William S.
White put it the other day, that
he has expanded the center, until
the fringes are insignificant. Mr.
Nixon is close to the Rieht
a iLnortlf t0? ?
tne Democrats, to the mdepend
fringe. He is unacceptable to
"u lo a larEe ""fly OI Ke-
publicans, who make up the Eis-
' mc uu-
enhower center. He could not
be elected if he were nominated.
and he would be beaten in the
campaign which would divide
and embitter the country. If he
became President because of
Eisenhower's disability, he would
almost certainly divide the great
coalition which Eisenhower
unites.
It is, I submit, the President's
duty to examine frankly, fear
lessly and objectively these po
litical realities. Before he de
cides whether he himself will
run for a second term, it is his
duty to make sure that his Vice
President is acceptable to his
own following, and comoetent
to carry on. When he has done
that, his own personal decision
will no longer need to depend
upon predictions about the un
predictable, upon certainties
that can never be had. Having
provided for the larger future,
he can make his own decision in
the present and the nearer fu
ture. rpo SAY that there is no ac
ceptable second man avail
able to the Republican Party is
not only a counsel of despair.
It is inherently ' improbable.
Eisenhower is no doubt the in
dispensable candidate for Presi
dent. But can it be argued that
Nixon is the indispensable can
didate for Vice President? All
that can be said is that there is
nobody else now in the running.
There is, however, no question
but that with a whole year to go
the President has virtually un
limited power to make a suitable
and acceptable man known to
the nation. If the man he picks
has what it takes, the country
will soon realize it, once the
Presidential spotlight has been
turned upon him.
fTHE President cannot, I think,
- in fairness to himself, to his
party, and to the country leave
the problem as he has now posed
it which is to force everyone.
including himself, to keep guess
ing for another half a year aboujt
matters which will not be any
more certain then than they are
now. But if, before making his
own decision, he decided to make
sure and clear the succession, he
will have made his own decision
much easier to make. For he will
havp talrpn out &nnrl insurance.
and nothing fatal an tremend
ous will then depend (n tne de
cision. r.nrnrriaht. 19S5. '
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
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