Word: enacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Civilization has barely scratched the Urubu. For the visitor this makes conversation strictly one-way, because talk about railway trains, skyscrapers or factories only bewilders them. Huxley found that the only Western institution the Urubus could appreciate was Queen Elizabeth's coronation, which he was required to enact again and again. Missionaries told the Urubu Indians about the Christ child long ago; but then the missionaries sailed away, leaving Maïr in full possession. Today, only dogs, chickens and ducks are deemed the creations of the Christ child. Everything else is ghosts and spirits-and an impressive ghost...
...typically ambitious Omnibus undertaking-but less ambitious in size than it started out to be. Two years ago, after listening to a British general expound over cocktails how Gettysburg "changed the course of civilization," Omnibus Executive Producer Robert Saudek decided to re-enact the battle on TV. At first it was to be treated as a classroom demonstration, with tin soldiers on a sand table. This gave way to a plan to film the battle at Lenox, Mass, on terrain resembling Gettysburg without the monuments. One hundred and fifty bearded and costumed actors and volunteer extras, all Civil War buffs...
...Senators who will fight for a filibuster-busting rules change in the opening days of the 85th Congress. The attempt is foredoomed, and has diverted attention from a significant fact: there is a real possibility that in 1957 the Senate, its rules unchanged, and the House of Representatives will enact the first major civil-rights legislation since Reconstruction...
...soil bank might now suffer because-among other reasons-multi-crop farmers who decline to comply with acreage restrictions on one crop, e.g., corn, are not eligible for soil-bank payments on other crops, e.g., wheat, peanuts, cotton. What to do? The Agriculture Department probably will ask Congress to enact in legislation the plan that failed to win the two-thirds majority. Since 61% of the farmers actually voted for his plan, Ezra Benson feels that equity is on his side. He hopes that Congress will feel the same, but before he finds out for sure, Washington can look forward...
...power to enact such laws, Chafee said, comes mainly from the Fourteenth Amendment, but also from some provisions of the original Constitution...