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Congress [should] enact legislation to prevent the sale of bituminous coal below the cost of production...
...suddenly under attack? Because recent years have seen what Secretary Dulles called a "trend toward trying to use the treatymaking power to effect internal social changes." Example: a Truman-appointed committee suggested in 1947 that certain provisions of the United Nations Charter gave the Federal Government power to enact "civil rights" legislation which could not have been enacted before the charter was signed...
Throughout Haiti this week, the people of the villages will enact the Judas hunt, an ancient Holy Week ceremonial which they have colored and absorbed into their own folklore. In effigy, "Monsieur Judas" will come to visit the peasants as one of the twelve apostles and an honored guest. But as soon as the death of Christ is announced on Good Friday, the symbolic traitor will flee, and the hunt will begin early on Holy Saturday...
...Deterrent. It would do no good to enact still harsher punitive laws, the re-searchers suggested, because the people who are going to commit sex crimes are so emotionally disturbed that they do not count the possible cost. Unhappily, there is no sure way to spot them before they go wrong. But the courts are making more use of the state's "sex-psychopath law," which provides psychiatric treatment for convicted offenders. And (except for homosexuals) they rarely repeat their offenses after they get out on parole...
Villers opposed the bill on two grounds from an educational aspect. He said such a commission was not needed to dredge up Red affiliations because "students are well aware of the Communist threat." He added that it was not the job of a legislative group to enact an administrative...