Word: allows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...encourage junior league baseball." Douglas charged Dirksen with "deception," with introducing "an awesome and abominable proposal," with trying to give "the rotten-borough legislatures now in operation the power of self-perpetuation," with "sounding the false alarm that the Supreme Court had created chaos in the states," plotting to allow "private utilities" and "big financial interests" to hold a veto against "consumers, wage and salaried workers and the general body of citizens...
...bill would allow the unused quotas of nations such as Great Britain and Ireland to be pooled and transferred to low-quota nations such as Italy and India. Then, by July 1968, the national origins system would be scrapped entirely. Instead, the U.S. would offer a total of 170,000 immigrant visas on a first-come, first-served basis, with a limit of 20,000 permits for any nation outside the Western Hemisphere. As the present law entails, there still would be no numerical limit within the Hemisphere. Beyond that, any parents, minor children, or spouses of U.S. citizens would...
Ultimately, the bill would allow an estimated 340,000 new immigrants each year-50,000 more than at present...
...Passed, in both Houses, and sent to the White House a bill authorizing $1.7 billion in military construction. It also gives Congress a stronger hand in blocking shutdowns of military installations by refusing to allow the Secretary of Defense to close any base until 120 days after he has announced his plans to House and Senate Armed Services committees. He must submit his shutdown reports between Jan. 1 and April 30 so the committees can write restrictive language into the annual military construction bills if they disapprove...
Lauren Friedman's Victoria is a bit monotonous once she moves into her male disguise, but the part does not seem to allow for much variety. Gloria Maddox's exaggerated Rose is admirable...