Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Utah's Senator Arthur Watkins was having a hectic time last week trying to pry loose the Emergency Migration bill to admit 240,000 aliens, including many Iron Curtain refugees. Opposing Watkins' bill are crafty old Pat McCarran, a Democrat who suspects that most aliens are undesirable, and Idaho's Herman Welker, a member of the Republican Party's stalagmite branch...
Homer and Jethro admit that Victor, in the past, has been unaccountably worried about their sales. But the boys' Tennessee-style logic is too much for Victor's citified executives. "Like when we were in New York last for a recordin' session," says Jethro. "One of the execs came down to ask if we had any ideas would help the sales of our records. I told him, 'Sure thing. Put Perry Como's name on the label.'" Says Homer: "We get a kick out of havin' those fellows go away talkin...
...Gadsden, Ala., the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church (membership: 83,000, mostly in the South) voted 2 to i to admit Negroes to the church's graduate school of theology at McKenzie, Tenn...
Practical Surgery. Paradoxically, although to most U.S. laymen medicine in Vienna means Freud and psychoanalysis, few foreign psychiatrists go there. For one thing, Prophet Freud is less honored at home than abroad. Also, Viennese psychiatrists admit that their U.S. colleagues have outfreuded them. Vienna's attraction to U.S. doctors is in its readily available facilities for studying the practical side of surgery and pathology...
...Hard Way. In Los Angeles, after police refused to admit him to the city jail, Raymond Tanori smashed a liquor-store window, was duly arrested, given 30 days behind bars...