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...establish the first settlement in the continental U.S., the nation's Congress paid historic hom age to the heterogeneous men who helped build the U.S. By a 76 to 18 vote, the Senate adopted a sweeping new immigration reform bill that strikes down the restrictive " national origins" quota system that has discriminated against Southern Europeans and Asians since 1924, when nearly 80% of white Americans traced their forebears to northern and western Europe. "After 40 years, we have returned to first principles," said Massachusetts' Senator Teddy Kennedy, the floor manager of the bill and himself the grandson...
...immigrant visas on a first-come, first-served basis. The maximum for any one nation will be 20,000 - a figure exceeded last year only by Germany's 22,628 and the United Kingdom's 28,653. Until then, the unused allotments of such high-quota na tions as Britain and Ireland will be transferred to such low-quota lands as Italy and India, where would-be immigrants now often have to wait a decade or more for their turn...
Congress passed an Immigration Reform Bill yesterday that eliminated the 51-year-old National Origins Quota System and imposed, for the first time, quotas on countries in the Western Hemisphere...
...seven per cent increase over last year's 2810 students is probably partially due to the increasing draft quota, according to J. Peterson Elder, Dean of the GSAS. "Ideally, I certainly hope this isn't so, but realistically some must be here because of the draft," Elder admitted yesterday...
Like many another church recently, the United Church of Christ has decided that it pays to advertise. Two years ago the United Presbyterian Church commissioned a series of radio spots by Stan Freberg. The Unitarians have acquired a substantial quota of converts over the years with low-keyed ads in magazines that begin: "Are You a Unitarian Without Knowing It?" And long before any of these, the Knights of Columbus began sponsoring magazine ads giving once-over-lightly explanations of Roman Catholic doctrine. BUT WHY THE CANDLES, HOLY WATER AND BEADS? headlines one of their...