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Receptive to Ideas. The psychology of the Total Immersion technique, as Berlitz officials unashamedly admit, is suspiciously close to that of brainwashing. "What we try to do," says New York Berlitz Director Emanuel Huarte, "is to break students down mentally until they lose the ability to resist and are receptive to fresh ideas." The breakdown begins to the clang of an 8:15 a.m. bell in a windowless classroom, where the student faces one of his four alternating instructors. Student and teacher speak nothing but the foreign language during eleven 40-minute periods, relieved only by five-minute English breaks...
More realistically, Powell faces a tough fight to get back his congressional seat. His attorneys filed a 15-page brief with the investigating committee headed by Brooklyn Congressman Emanuel Celler, declaring that there is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that bars him from his seat. The nine-man Celler committee announced that it will begin holding formal hearings this week. Celler said he had not yet made up his mind on whether to call Powell to testify, although he thought it "most likely...
With no choice but to carry out the House's will, Speaker McCormack last week handpicked a committee of five Democrats and four Republicans to investigate Adam Powell. As chairman, he named Democrat Emanuel Celler, a New Yorker like Powell and chief House sponsor of every major civil rights bill since 1957. Manny Celler had at the time of the Powell floor debate denounced the whole investigation as "a kangaroo court." Now he heads...
...being seated by invoking a House rule giving any member the right to challenge the swearing in of another (TIME, Dec. 9). Moreover, for all of Congress' traditional reluctance to criticize its members, Congressmen are under growing pressure from constituents to do something about Powell. Brooklyn Democratic Representative Emanuel Celler, for one, considers Powell "as obnoxious as a crocodile," but thinks that to expel him - which the House could do by a two-thirds majority - would be "foolish." Powell, whose constituents elected him to a twelfth term in November with 74% of the vote, would, says Celler, "be elected...
...GOOD LIFE (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). Affluence and religion are the topics for a discussion between Yeshiva University's Dr. Emanuel Rackman, Fordham's Dr. Paul Reiss and Union Theological's the Rev. Henry Clark...