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First Come, First Served. In accordance with the Senate bill, the national origins system will be scrapped entirely in July 1968, when all nations outside the West ern Hemisphere will be allotted a total of 170,000 immigrant visas on a first-come, first-served basis. The maximum for any one nation will be 20,000 - a figure exceeded last year only by Germany's 22,628 and the United Kingdom's 28,653. Until then, the unused allotments of such high-quota na tions as Britain and Ireland will be transferred to such low-quota lands...
...vast era of prehistory. In that remote period, they say, the region that is now the northwest shore of Lake Superior was covered by a shallow sea or perhaps a chain of lakes. The dry land was devoid of life; the atmosphere may have been unbreathable for most mod ern creatures. But in shallow pools, say the paleontologists, a dim kind of life was stirring. The bottom was covered with hard hummocks - mounds made of tight-packed vertical columns, a fraction of an inch in diameter, that were created by living matter...
Like the printers' boss, Gaherin came up the hard way, without benefit of a college education. To his new assignment in New York, he brings 20 years of experience in railroad labor relations, most recently as chairman of the labor-relations committee of the East ern Railroad Presidents Conference. In that capacity, Gaherin has argued management's side against the railroad brotherhoods, or unions, many of whom are at least as stubborn as Powers...
...estate. His sleep of innocence is torn awake by the discovery of corruption all around him, including incest between his sister and oldest brother. Sebastian flees from home and enlists in the army to find "purity and heroism" in combat; he becomes a daredevil tank commander on the East ern Front as Rumania joins the Axis in the war against Russia. Again reality catches up with the dream, as he witnesses such atrocities as the poisoning of village wells by stuffing them with dead villagers, and the scorched-earth policy that the Germans learned from the Russians...
...What has happened to Chou En-lai?" Peking's Premier has not been seen at a public function for more than a month. He returned from his tour of Africa last February looking tired and sickly, and he is known to have rested for two weeks in southwest ern China before resuming his duties...