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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate tug of war. At first the bill, called the Emergency Migration Act, was intended largely for people from Southern Europe barred by the low quotas of the McCarran-Walter Act, the basic U.S. immigration law. Nevada's late Senator Pat McCarran managed to change much of the content, as well as the title. As passed, the act was an administrative monstrosity which Congress assigned to the State Department's Security Chief, Scott McLeod. There was no staff, no office space, not even a desk for the program, but McLeod came under a barrage of criticism because...
...Soviet leadership-police, party, industry, state and army. "He has no blind side," says one French authority. An American diplomat judges that Bulganin is stronger than most Westerners suspect. "I got the impression," said another, "that he takes orders from no man." In public appearances, however, he seems content to let Khrushchev steal the show...
...makebates, hoodledashers and such archaic huncamunca. His grandson's version of baseball in the Abner Doubleday country may not be so uproarious as James Thurber's rowdy recollections of the game in Columbus, Ohio. But his saga of Hop Bitters ("The Invalid's Friend& Hope"-alcoholic content: 40%), which Patent Medicine Man Asa T. Soule of Rochester put over by promoting a baseball team and a hilariously crooked sculling championship, invites comparison with Thurber's immortal tribute to the life-preserving elixirs concocted by Aunt Margery Albright. This book is good fun for summer readers, especially...
Last week Planner Li ordered even more drastic cutbacks, especially in agriculture. The target for grain output in 1957 will be lowered by 12%. Instead of driving one-half of China's peasants into collective farms in the next 2½ years. Peking will be content to drive only one-third of them. But let no one imagine that this means any letup in the drive to collectivization, said Li Fu-chun. "China's small peasant economy" must be abolished and replaced with "collective farming...
...named another Deputy Chief, only to have the replacement decline the honor. With nary a soldier to heed his command, one-handed Chief of Staff Utoyo repaired to a room in the Hotel des Indes, where he could bark orders at bell boys to heart's content...