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INVESTIGATIONS: Mighty Interesting Visit

Senator Kefauver's big eight-day show in New York had only about an hour to run one afternoon last week, but it was really only half over. In one fast slam-bang finish, the scenery collapsed, the players' masks were yanked off, and there, in full view of fascinated millions watching through TV screens, stood the skeleton of corruption, deceit and bribery in the world's greatest city.

Until that last hour, the audience had begun to worry. Would the good fellows from the sticks ever really show up all those tough, wily city slickers...

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