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Hunting Horseradish. He is fond of citing the state's illustrious sons and daughters, mentioning the only Hoosier President, Benjamin Harrison, in the same breath as Marjorie Main, Jimmy Hoffa, John Dillinger and Eugene Debs. He talks familiarly of Booth Tarkington, remarks that James Whitcomb Riley was "more of a devotee of the glass than the typewriter," and notes that "we had Theodore Dreiser, who wrote Sister Carrie and scared everybody in Indiana right out of their wits." He brings up that other literary figure, one James Buchanan Elmore, author of the lines: "My wife has gone ahunting/ Horseradish...
...Asians left Kenya during the first years of Uhuru, since Africanization of jobs took place slowly. Only last autumn did political pressure to place Africans in the main fields of Asian activity lead to new restrictions. Determined to break the Asian hold on trade and semi-skilled jobs, the African-dominated Government required all non-citizens to have working permits and all traders and merchants to have licenses. Discrimination figured in many cases--permits were granted slowly, often for very short periods, and the awarding of licenses openly favored Africans, even if the Asians were citizens. The Government's solution...
Northeastern already has raced twice so far. The Huskies thrashed M.I.T. and B.U., and, a week ago, they came in a length and a half back of Vesper Boat Club of Philadelphia. Vesper is expected to provide the main competition for Harvard at the Olympic trials in mid-July...
...main defect is David DeSmit's conspiracy with himself to stifle the show's good spirits. As stage director DeSmit is subdued by the size of the production--"three sets, more than seventy costumes, thirteen leads," the program ballyhoos. In the first act the cast assembles like infantry battalions on a stage hardly ample enough for it under any conditions and made less serviceable by an amorphous grey shrouding which pretends to be the set. Since DeSmit is credited with the scenery this contriction is a failing of conception, not coordination. If his draping was meant to invoke the severity...
Writing in the A.B.A. Journal, Reardo explains that the standards "in no way inhibit public release by prosecutors or police of the full facts and the circumstances of an arrest or of a charge of crime." The main target of the standards is uncalled-for opinions such as that of a police officer who says a suspect is guilty. And the rules "do not restrict the news media from disseminating information developed through their own initiative or resources about crimes committed or about the administration of justice...