As former city editor of the New Orleans States and a Democratic Congressman since 1941, Louisiana's F. (for Felix) Edward Hébert (pronounced Abear) knows what makes a news story. This spring he got his hands on a natural: along with three other Congressmen and a Senator he went to Eniwetok for the latest atomic bomb tests (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), from which all working newsmen were banned. Before he left, Hebert agreed to do an exclusive series on the tests for his old paper.
Last week, when Hébert's pieces came out, the States offered the...
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