Still Looking

Grand juries beat their way through some dark underbrush last week.

A federal grand jury in Manhattan indicted Government Economist William W. Remington for perjury, charging that he had lied when he denied under oath that he had ever been a Communist. Remington had already been ordered to quit his $10,000-a-year job in the Commerce Department, or be fired. "With heavy heart," Remington resigned his job after his indictment, to devote "full time to proving in the court that I am innocent."

The same jury, taking the bit in its teeth, had also moved into the Amerasia case (TIME, June 12) to find out why the embezzlement of Government documents had been so half-heartedly prosecuted and the conspirators so lightly punished five years ago. To the obvious annoyance of Washington authorities, the grand jury plowed ahead with its own "runaway" investigation. The jury did not have much time. It would have to wind up this week, when its term expires.

In Brooklyn, another grand jury indicted stocky little Harry Gold and two unknown confederates, for conspiracy to commit espionage. The indictment charged that the 39-year-old chemist had transmitted atomic secrets from Dr. Klaus Fuchs to the Soviet Union in 1944 and 1945, by way of two confederates known as "John" and "Sam," for whom federal authorities were still looking.

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