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...smoke screen around a suspected landing place, then intensively search nearby homes and fields. "Illegals" who are caught are herded into a concentration camp. The Jewish Agency for Palestine, recognized as spokesman for world Jewry, negotiates for their release. Usually the British deduct the "illegals" from the regular quota for immigrants (1,500 a month), before freeing them...
...President Osmeña, the Chinese mestizo, just sat by and waited. He let his wife do the campaigning. Last week he got some help from the U.S. Congress: the Senate upped the Philippine sugar quota; the House passed a bill that would give the Philippines $620,000,000 for rehabilitation. The Philippine economy had improved; the cost of living had taken a moderate...
Eccentric & Enormous. Like the works of other Southern writers (Carson McCullers, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner) Author Welty's earlier books also had their full quota of human abnormalities (including two deaf mutes, one case of dementia praecox, one spinster drowned in a rain barrel). Delta Wedding adds only one: an amiable child who is not all there. But she is very much all there as one of the eccentric, enormous Fairchilds family-nonchalant Mississippi gentlefolk who flit in & out of the doors and windows of their ancestral mansion much as the yellow butterflies flitted in & out of the train...
Some months after V-E Day, when air-freight opened up, we began air mailing our Overseas edition from the U.S. to our loyal 3,077 British subscribers. Soon thereafter, British authorities raised our quota to 30,000 and let us fill it with copies of our Paris-printed edition for U.S. troops in Europe. Then finally, a fortnight ago, we began printing a full-sized, ad-carrying edition of TIME in Paris for delivery to civilian readers in France. England, and the Low Countries within 24 hours of its delivery date...
...executive session, while Gromyko took a ride (see below) without an accident. But other Russian representatives attended the meetings of the Committee of Experts and the Military Staff Committee, and Russia transferred $1,7 23,-ooo to UNO's bank account, the Soviet Union's full quota of UNO dues...