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...compromise bill, which was passed by a vote of 320 to 69 in the House and an oral acceptance in the Senate, provides an over-all quota of 170,000 immigrants annually from countries outside the Western Hemisphere. No more than 20,000 a year may come from any one country...
...with all the red-eyed energy of the life it describes. Jim McCauley wrote as he talked, and he talked Texas with a wild and wheezy wit that makes these pages twang as they turn, and sounds like Will Rogers when he still smelled of horse. His story is oral literature at its best. Holler Calf Rope. "It was natural for me to be mean," McCauley confesses contentedly, and at 14 he was much too mean for East Texas. One day he tangled with an older and stronger boy. "I was about ready to holler calf rope when his knife...
Appointed to 15-year terms by the President, COMA judges automatically review all sentences involving death and all sentences involving flag officers. They accept or reject other appeals as they see fit, hear 30-minute oral arguments, and issue written opinions on "decision days" (Fridays...
...European jongleur and minnesinger have their parallel in the Japanese hanashika, whose tongues have wagged incessantly for some 800 years. Diplomat-Scholar Post Wheeler, who was stationed at the U.S. embassy in Tokyo for six years, determined to safeguard the huge literary and oral tradition of the hanashika, spent 25 years talking with the storytellers and collecting, translating and annotating their tales. His ten-volume work has never been made available to the general public largely because he refused to allow the publication of any edition that did not meet his exacting standards. Wheeler died in 1956, and Editor Harold...
Questions Without Answers. At this point, the facts end and the mystery begins. Was the Voodoo on a spying mission or were the Pierrelatte pictures simply the result of a monumental Air Force snafu? The French, in a polite oral protest to the American embassy, seemed to think the former; the U.S., in an ambiguous, embarrassed apology for its "inadvertent violation of French flight regulations," indicated the latter...