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...whenever they feel like it. Compounding the confusion are the country's four time zones. In Indiana, for instance, the boundary between Eastern Standard and Central Standard Time splits the state from north to south. In parts of northern Idaho, Daylight Saving Time is observed on a door-to-door basis. And passengers on the 35-mile bus route between Steubenville, Ohio, and Moundsville, W. Va., would, if they wanted to keep local time for all the stops on the way, have to adjust their watches no less than seven times...
...full state machinery, not only local authorities, who oppose registration campaigns, Watkins emphasised. If a Negro attempts to register, state officials administer the test and then decide whether he has passing or failed in private. Despite an intense five month campaign-including door-to-door visits, mass meetings, speeches in church, and voter education schools-only 10 Green wood Negroes have been permitted to register...
...Small Hello. Born and raised in a stone hut in a primitive village four miles north of Jerusalem, Shoman at 23 emigrated to the U.S. and became a door-to-door salesman of dry-goods products. "I only knew how to say 'cheap, cheap' and then make finger signs to show the price," he says. What he lacked in English he more than made up in hard work. He soon opened a dressmaking factory in Manhattan's garment district, where an Arab was bound to get a small hello. He was homesick. Seeing...
...decision was clearly an advance: after a controversy last spring, the Masters had banned all door-to-door leaflet distribution. But that step was never publicized, and in fact the Masters ignored it themselves early this term when they allowed the Liberal Union to advertise a civil rights demonstration by putting mimeographed broadsides under House doors...
Although the Masters' latest action is encouraging and infinitely preferable to the former general ban, it does not go far enough. Especially in a University atmosphere, the free flow of political ideas should be as uninhibited as possible. In addition, door-to-door distribution of leaflets is the only effective and financially feasible method Harvard political groups have of reaching the community...