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...IMMIGRATION: An early push will be given to a favorite Johnson bill-revising immigration to give priority to highly skilled people rather than fixing quotas arbitrarily for each country. This bill may hit a snag in the House, for the immigration subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee is chaired by testy Ohio Democrat Michael Feighan, who is as close to an isolationist as there is in today's Congress...
Peter Orris '67, who travelled throughout the state, saw the relations between the White Citizens' Council and COFO as "two hands brushing against each other, occasionally hitting a snag, but not yet actually making any full contact...
...second Exeter man, 6 ft., 2 in., 200-1b. Carter Lord, from Lakeland. Fla., is reputed to be one of the best of a strong end corps. He hit well on defense yesterday and should snag a lot of passes--if Lamar can find someone who can throw...
...dingy tenement with his mother and her latest "husband," slopes through the shabby streets of Harlem day and night with a huddle of incipient hoods who call themselves the Pythons. Most of them are even younger than Duke, but all of them fight booze, smoke tea, use girls, snag purses and carry switchblades. A knife, alas, is not enough for Duke. He longs with mystical intensity to possess a gun: a scepter to define his will and a power to impose it upon the white man's world. The film describes how Duke fails to find the object...
Producer Marty Ransohoff, 35, likes B.O. plenty. His Beverly Hillbillies is a smash. But Marty's first two films, Boys' Night Out and The Wheeler Dealers, didn't snag quite as much customer coin as he had hoped. So in The Americanization of Emily he decided to trot in three nudes, tagged Broads 1, 2 and 3 in the script. And when the Motion Picture Association Production Code Administration refused to take the broad view and ordered some snipping Marty sounded arty, almost. "The code," he huffed to a reporter, "should be more mature and reflect modern...