Word: patly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intends to call in such notable consultants as Thomist Jacques Maritain and Yale Metaphysician Paul Weiss. Together these men will pluck one topic at a time from the modern Babel, and at the end of each investigation, publish books on it. Their purpose will not be to offer any pat answers. All they can possibly do, says Adler, is to "try to reach agreement on 1) the questions to be answered, 2) the range of possible answers to the questions, and 3) the order and connection between these questions and answers...
Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Eddie Cantor, with Pat O'Brien, Kay Starr...
...about. The Civil Aeronautics Board, which ordinarily renews the certificates of "feeder" airlines for only three years, broke precedent by issuing a seven-year renewal to North Carolina's tiny but fast-growing Piedmont Airlines. In addition, CAB awarded Piedmont four new routes, and gave Piedmont a public pat on the back for its "outstanding record...
Last week the principle of national origins came under heavy fire from Senate liberals. Up for debate and disposition was an omnibus immigration measure sponsored by Nevada's Pat McCarran. In essence, the bill proposes no real departure in policy. Product of almost three years of study and hearings by the judiciary committees, it is designed to bring thousands of piecemeal immigration statutes and regulations (accumulated since 1798) into one handy, compact code. In the process, it would remove some glaring inequities, e.g., all Asiatic immigrants would be eligible for citizenship, where previously Japanese and certain others were barred...
Warning of Disaster. Windy old Pat McCarran took the floor for what was practically a singlehanded oratorical fight against the critics. Their proposals, he thundered, would be "disastrous" to the U.S.: ". . . opening of the gates to a flood of Asiatics . . . destruction of the national-origins quota system . . . would, in the course of a generation or so, change the ethnic and cultural composition of this nation...