Word: interpretions
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...peer." When he and the President are of the same party, the Speaker is expected to be the chief White House ally on Capitol Hill. The Speaker must be a skilled and cool parliamentarian, in complete control of the 437 men and women of the House, able to interpret, to arbitrate, and to act swiftly and certainly. Through his various powers, controls and discretions, he can exercise enormous influence on the flow of legislation. No law may be enacted without the Speaker's signature. His right to refuse recognition to members rising to speak on the floor...
...main target of SNCC's work in Mississippi has been a statute permitting voting registrars to ask applicants to interpret any part of the state constitution. Under the law registrars can ask Negroes to answer virtually impossible questions, and thus prevent their registration on supposedly legal grounds...
Arkansas' Democratic Representative Dale Alford is an ophthalmologist-and he knows how to interpret political eye-charts. Alford's Fifth District and Democrat Wilbur Mills's neighboring Second have been merged by congressional redistricting; running against Mills, a twelve-term veteran and chairman of the key House Ways and Means Committee, Alford's rating would be about 20/200. Until a few weeks ago, Alford showed signs of trying instead for Foreign Relations Chairman J. William Fulbright's Senate seat. But after Fulbright returned to Arkansas last fall and hit the hustings in preparation...
...Hoerner's calculators, there are perhaps only ten civilized communities within 1,000 light-years of the earth. But Von Hoerner is convinced (hat if some highly cultured creatures are actually trying to communicate across interstellar space, earth's astronomers could, by concerted effort, detect and interpret the incoming messages...
According to Rothstein, the major task of the drive is to teach the Mississippi Constitution to prospective Negro voters. The state has kept the number of Negroes registered at 2.4 per cent of those eligible primarily by requiring that they be able to interpret any passage of the constitution...