Word: paralleled
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Although the board of directors of the CCA is largely Democratic, its membership is to a great extent Republican. In Cambridge, however, these Republicans might have been Democrats, had not the Democratic party been largely a party controlled by Irish and Italian Catholics. An obvious parallel to the Cambridge situation is the earlier (Mayor Curleyera) Back Bay Republican reform element, which still spasmodically asserts itself in Boston politics...
There is an interesting parallel between American and Soviet reactions to the launching of the artificial satellite. Nikita Krushchev "congratulated the engineers and technicians and calmly went to bed;" President Eisenhower let the world know "I am not disturbed, not one iota." There were others, however, in the United States who were disturbed, and many who did not go to bed calmly after hearing the news...
...gang is on the lurk, and the cowboys aren't having any. They leave the job to a drought-poor homesteader (Van Heflin) who needs the money ($200) to buy water for his cattle. From there on, it is hard to tell whether the moviemakers intended to parallel or to parody High Noon. The camera keeps a nervous clock watch as the alive-or-deadline approaches-in this case, the arrival of the 3:10 to Yuma. And the sound track keeps suggesting, with the insidious plucking of a panicky guitar, that the moviegoer's heartbeat should...
Last week Cyrus Gordon, professor of Near Eastern languages at Brandeis University, offered a solution to the mystery. Linear A, says he, does indeed use Minoan signs, but these parallel Akkadian (Assyro-Babylonian) syllables. Just as Ventris' discovery revealed that the Achaeans of the Greek mainland were not the illiterates that a reading of Homer suggests, but might well have been the civilized conquerors of Crete, so Gordon's thesis sheds a whole new light on the possible foundations of Greek civilization itself...
...Senate and House committees moved separately but on parallel lines toward a "compromise" immigration bill. Immigration to the U.S. would stay just about where it was, at 155,000 a year, parceled out in national quotas that favored immigrants from Northern and Western Europe as against harder-pressed people from Southern and Central Europe. As for the 24,600 Hungarian refugees "on parole," the House Judiciary Committee considered the President's request for permanent status, voted it down by 15 to 11. The Senate committee ignored it completely. So the 24,600 Hungarians-"freedom fighters" was once the term...