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...measure sponsored by Nevada's Pat McCarran. In essence, the bill proposes no real departure in policy. Product of almost three years of study and hearings by the judiciary committees, it is designed to bring thousands of piecemeal immigration statutes and regulations (accumulated since 1798) into one handy, compact code. In the process, it would remove some glaring inequities, e.g., all Asiatic immigrants would be eligible for citizenship, where previously Japanese and certain others were barred. But the McCarran bill accepts the principle of national origin without any reservation...
Richart calls senior Carl Timpson, playing fifth man, the player who has the best possibilities on his squad. His swing is the most compact and the best grooved, but a shaky short game keeps his scores up around 78. George Wheeling, a junior, and Jack Brophy, a sophomore, complete the list of today's starters. Both shoot around...
...latest 43-tone work. An audience of 700 braved a California storm to hear his King Oedipus, based on a William Butler Yeats translation of Sophocles' play. Explained Partch: "The tone of the spoken word and the tone of an instrument are intended to combine in a compact emotional and dramatic expression, each providing its singular ingredient...
...wanted to use Mozart's sprightly Divertimento in B Flat (K. 287) for his 73rd ballet. Four days before the premiere by his New York City Ballet, he found a title of French origin that fit his new dances like a leotard: "Caracole" -twisting and turning in a compact form. Caracole was full of fancy, always clear, but incredibly complex. The companies that could dance it, as the Times's John Martin noted, "could be numbered on one's right thumbs...
Until now, Council-Faculty contact has been channeled through the Dean's Office in accordance with the Gentlemen's Agreement, an informal compact in which the Administration promised to consult the Council before making important decisions affecting undergraduates. The Council presents its views in written statements, which the Dean's Othce in turn transmits to the appropriate Faculty committee...