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...census is not nearly as outrageously curious as it once was. In 1890, for example, the federal inquisitors asked no fewer than 470 questions. Among the most impertinent: "If there are any idiots living in the house, what is their head size (small, large, or natural)?" "Has the origin of this child been respectable?" "Is this resident habitually intemperate, a tramp, or syphilitic...
Chief Fire Marshal Vincent Canty said the fire was "of suspicious origin." but that no connection had been made between the blaze and the lawyers' offices...
...representatives contend that Harvard has violated Executive Order 11246 of 1965, which requires that any institution receiving federal funds must prove that it does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin. (A later Executive Order added sex as an illegal discriminatory basis). The Department of HEW is responsible for investigating these institutions...
...much shaped as draped-in drooping paint-spattered bunches, like clothes drying on a line. He had one on view in this year's Whitney Annual, has had shows at Washington's Jefferson Place Gallery and the Phillips Collection. The only hint of racial origin on the guy-roped canvases of Joe Overstreet is his use of African and, most lately, American Indian colors...
...news comment ??? I've ??? believes that he origin??? the use of the term the quality of life in its present ??? in 1956. He used it then to refer to the Adla Stevenson campaign which challenged the New Deal ??? on "the quantity of life." Typified by Franklin D. Roosevelfs promises of material wel??. The change in rhetoric, from quantity to quality, called for more than just updating New Deal policies, it called for a monumental change in American goals...