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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senator Kennedy, in his never-ending quest for the Holy Grail, was reported last week to be working on an immigration bill to replace the much-maligned, little-understood McCarran-Walter Act. His proposal, to make admission of aliens contingent upon blood relationship to individuals already resident in the country, though perhaps salutary in practice, would scarcely be any more logical in principle than the existing legislation...
...McCarran-Walter Act, as enacted in 1952, is based on a simple principle of chemistry: that a constant solution is maintained through a constant proportion of component elements. Messrs. McCarran and Walter (along with a sizeable segment of Congress, which passed the bill over President Truman's veto) decided that in 1920 the national elements in the Melting Pot had reached the proper mixture, and decreed a quota system of immigration whereby the number of aliens admitted from each country was proportional to the national origins of the population according to the 1920 census...
...third act, the playboy comes back from "the sports" where he wins his title, gorgeous in jockey's silks, and Mr. McNamara decides that it is time for him to grow into his heroic pose. In the ensuing love scene with Miss Carroll he plays it straight, and matches her in eloquence...
Even in the Cambridge community, including the University, few people know even the nature of the spectacular IGY work being done by Harvard and Smithsonian personnel. The scientists have neither the time nor the resources to act as press agents; it's all they can do to keep up with the data that comes in. What is distressing, Livingston noted, is that even in this center of intellectual achievement a major gap still exists between the scientists and the non-scientists. Few of the latter care to burden themselves with the technical implications of rocketry, bomb testing or ocean turnover...
...would, as the Supreme Court argued in the Nelson case of 1956, conflict with and duplicate Federal legislation which has pre-empted the field. The other ABA recommendations--to give the Secretary of State broad power to withhold passports from "alleged subversives," to strengthen the already too stringent Smith Act, to extend the already too wide security program, to tighten immigration laws requiring the deportation of Communists (probably unconstitutional, and at least unjust, as they stand)--similarly represent dangerous incursions upon individual political liberty...