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Police guards, along with the presence of two priests at the head of the march, and a Spanish-American woman carrying a large picture of Our Lady of Guadeloupe, the grapepickers' patron saint, prevented any outbreak of violence...
Senators never felt grander. The Congress decided what industries to protect with tariffs, what railroads to build, what public works to undertake. They chose, or thought they chose, Presidents. And they were hawks: the Senate had more than its share in pushing the U.S. into the Spanish-American War. Some time before, a young scholar named Woodrow Wilson had written mournfully: "The President may tire the Senate by dogged persistence, but he can never deal with it upon a ground of real equality. His power does not extend beyond the most general suggestion. The Senate always has the last word...
...milk, for the cost of shoveling snow in Washington. It takes up the building of hydrogen bombs, Christmas vacations for Job Corps enrollees, postmen's rounds. It sets out the figures for developing a vaccine against syphilis and paying the pensions of 10,500 surviving veterans of the Spanish-American War. From the smallest single project ($5,000 for the Potomac River Basin Commission) to the largest ($3.6 billion to put a man on the moon), the budget bristles with insights into the nation's mood. In fiscal 1967, the U.S. will spend $820,000 on training, counseling...
...Klux Klan are saving Green Stamps for an airplane for their noble, semiliterate leader [Nov. 12]. That is sickening, particularly to us in Taos, because we collect trading stamps too-for Christmas toys for children of poverty-stricken families. Our stamps are collected by people of three groups (Spanish-American, Indian, Anglo) for children of three groups in an area where these people have lived together cooperatively for years...
...prize-winning novelist, Anderson-Imbert has also written a History of Spanish-American Literature. He taught at Argentine universities until 1947 when he came to this country; at present he is on the faculty of the University of Michigan. He is 55 years...