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According to legend, this stern precept had its origin in 1755, when an earthquake leveled seven chimneys in Braintree, Mass., and so impressed 20-year-old John Adams that he ran to describe it for posterity. Historians now will have to find a different reason for the avalanche of Adams diaries. Last week an earlier diary of the clan patriarch-immediately dubbed "John Adams' Lost Diary"-was unveiled by Harvard University, publisher of the Massachusetts Historical Society's projected 100-volume Adams Papers...
Title VII expressly forbids "employers, unions and employment agencies" to practice discrimination "because of race, color, religion, sex or national origin." It just as expressly allows a host of exemptions. Italian restaurateurs, for instance, are given the privilege of employing Italian chefs. Baptist clergymen may go right on hiring Baptist sextons. In one instance, Title VII authorizes reverse discrimination. The act gives employers ranging from Minnesota wild-rice farmers to New Mexico electronics manufacturers the option of hiring only American Indians...
...Please correct your reference to Czechoslovakia in TIME'S foreign law story [May 7]. U.S. citizens of Czechoslovak origin or descent do not usually have dual citizenship, and they and their U.S.-born children are not subject to arrest if they visit Czechoslovakia. No person, regardless of citizenship, is subject to arrest unless he violates Czechoslovak law. The status of dual citizenship is not a crime under Czechoslovak...
...satellite. At the microwave frequency the horn was tuned to, 4080 megacycles, radio waves from the stars and galaxies were all but undetectable, and tests with a ground transmitter proved that waves from the earth's surface could be disregarded. Still, signals were coming in. What was their origin...
...There is a danger that must be nipped in the bud, otherwise it might destroy all of the gains against Communism in South Viet Nam. It is the decision of the provisional Legislative Council to authorize new citizens of Chinese origin to stand for provincial councils and for Parliament only five years after acquiring Vietnamese citizenship. Under Ngo Dinh Diem's regime, the Chinese here were at first prevented from practicing dozens of professions. Such a prohibition was soon neutralized by a decision to give masses of them Vietnamese citizenship, thus making deeper and steadier Chinese control over...