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...removed by the constitution itself. Its preamble, a pedestrian preface to 106 dryly written articles, says with humorless certainty: "The first All-China People's Congress of the People's Republic of China solemnly adopted our country's first constitution in Peking, the capital, on [day blank, month blank, year blank]," thus anticipating the action of a congress which is yet to be convened, on a date yet to be announced...
...Montgomery, Ala., the first Confederate capita], he was invited to join the Southern Congress in secret session. But on his way to the Capitol, Russell had driven past a slave auction, and he was so upset that he refused point-blank to sit with "a Congress of Slave States." One day beside the Mississippi River, an "an-thropoproprietor" insisted upon conducting him around an evil-smelling set of slave pens, beneath their canopy of flies...
There was a moment of profound silence, then a roll of thunderous applause. Chairman Mundt, who had always curbed such outbreaks, let the applause run its course as McCarthy stared in blank surprise. When the uproar had subsided, Joe Welch, face drained white, rose from the committee table, silently walked past McCarthy and out into a corridor where he stood alone, dabbing at his eyes with a handkerchief...
...Fire!" shouted the troop commander, and the riflemen shot point-blank into the massed, unarmed students. By the time the volley ended, nine students and two bystanders had been killed; dozens were wounded (see NEWS IN PICTURES). The paraders fled. Still a mystery at week's end was the answer to the question: Who fired the fatal first shot...
...Aunt Morgen, "fit for kittens and unwashed boys"). Backaches and migraine headaches pin Elizabeth to her bed every so often, and Aunt Morgen is solicitous until she finds the girl sneaking out of the house in the small hours. Accused of a secret romance or worse, Elizabeth draws a blank and claims to know nothing of her nocturnal jaunts. What worries Elizabeth far more are the scrawled little notes she keeps finding on her office desk, uncapitalized in the manner of e.e. cummings, e.g., "i know all about you dirty dirty lizzie and you can't get away from...