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Bernard, a student from Trinidad who recently married an American named Joannie, hoped to become a permanent U.S. resident. But first the Immigration and Naturalization Service in New York City wanted him and his new wife to answer a few questions???questions carefully designed to catch foreigners who enter into sham marriages with Americans simply to gain citizenship. INS officials have been known to ask applicants about tattoos and which side of the bed someone sleeps on, then double-check the answers with their spouses. "We married for love," said Bernard. "But we had heard stories about the interview...
...President Carter's energy program at last began staggering through Congress, but a near disaster at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania raised legitimate questions???as well as much unnecessary hysteria?about how safe and useful nuclear power will be as a partial substitute for the imported oil that the eruption in Iran will help make ever more costly. The conclusion of a SALT II agreement with the Soviet Union?more modest in scope than many Americans had urged, but basically useful to the U.S.?led to congressional wrangling that raised doubts about whether the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty will...
...appearance before reporters and TV cameras in the East Room was a calculated risk, he prepared himself with special care. He spent a whole afternoon reviewing the fine points of U.S. policy on Iran with National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Secretary of State Vance and fielding practice questions???about 25 in all ? thrown at him by aides. Former Imagemaker Jerry Rafshoon rehearsed Carter on the brief speech that would open the news conference...
...Spring of Mrs. Stone, All Fall Down, Lilith?that turned out to be disappointments, but enlarged Beatty's image. Along the way, he earned a reputation for being hard on directors. "If the director was indecisive, Warren would absolutely destroy him," says Robert Towne. "He'd ask so many questions???and he can ask more questions than any three-year-old?that the director didn't know whether he was coming or going. I think Warren's drive to be a producer was that he feared he would get into more films where the person in authority didn't quite...
...please, plan to get a College certificate in two years or so, then do specialized work in one of the ''Divisions." Last week Host Hutchins gave his guests a try at a new, exciting party game: Examinations. The new Board of Examinations, after lengthy studies, issued a set of questions???nearly 1,000 of them?which are samples of the four comprehensive tests sooner or later to be given the guests. The samples cover the autumn's work but the real ones, to be answered in six hours, will be for the whole year. They will be offered in June...