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...problem, as in the past, was largely politics. If admitted to the Union, Hawaii (pop. 499,794) is expected to send two Republican Senators to Washington. Most Democrats in the Senate want to cancel that prospective G.O.P. gain by granting statehood to Alaska (pop. 182,000), which would be expected to elect Democrats. Some Southern Democrats don't want Hawaii admitted at all, because of Hawaiian disregard for the color line. Last week three Republicans (Nevada's Malone, North Dakota's Langer and Maryland's Butler) joined Democrats in a 46-43 vote to package...
...already been forced to cancel two showings--one scheduled for tonight--because of the industry's crackdown...
...recently warned by Lydon and was forced to cancel the showing of "Tight Little Island, scheduled for today," said Richard Krauss '57, Ivy film director. "If it were known that we had booked the picture, originally, scheduled for today, more distributors would stop dealing with us." "In the past two months two distributors have broken relations with us," he continued. "Ivy was also forced to cancel the showing of "Kind Hearts and Coronets" some time ago," said Charles Kadison '55, president of Ivy Films. The reason he gave for cancellation was similar to Krauss...
...three hustled off to jail were Lolita Lebron, Rafael Cancel Miranda and Andres Figueroa Cordero−all members of the terrorist Nationalist party of Puerto Rico, the same group that made the attempt to storm Blair House and assassinate Harry Truman in 1950. A fourth member of the gang was picked up at a bus terminal. The four had left New York that morning, buying one-way railroad tickets in the expectation that they would lose their lives. In the woman's handbag, police found a penciled suicide note. "Before God, and the world," it said, "my blood claims...
Olson and May connected an extra-sensitive microphone to an amplifier and a loudspeaker, which they placed directly behind the microphone. When a sound wave hits the microphone, the loudspeaker reacts in such a way that it increases or reduces the air pressure in its vicinity just enough to cancel out the sound wave. The result is a small "quiet zone" near the microphone...