Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only 6,500 can receive visas under the Refugee Relief Act; the rest will be admitted under a clause of the McCarran-Walter Act that authorizes the admission of "parolees" with no permanent status. Ike is gambling that Congress, when it convenes, will pass special legislation to grant permanent entry to the parolees...
...people. The only hope for newlyweds is a proposed "build-it-yourself" development project, called romantically "Quarters for Lovers Without an Apartment." Complaining that government ministers get all the good houses, the newspaper Zycie Warszawy recently described 16,000 families quartered in unheated barracks at Jozefow, gave special mention to the case of Jozef Grajka, who lives with his family of five in an outside toilet...
...Presbyterian Church is typical of the new kind of mail he has been getting since he installed "Dial-a-Prayer"-the newest contribution of science to salvation. Each day Dr. Bonnell records a new 30-second message on a magnetic drum, which is played back all day by a special machine.* Each hour an average 800 calls come in on ten trunk lines attached to the machine. The number (Circle 6-4200) is listed under the church's name as "Prayer Telephone," and is circulated on cards...
Cranks tries so hard to be different that there are no real skits at all-which are the lifeblood of a revue. Except for Actor Anthony Newley, there is no touch of that special drollery which is the backbone of British humor. And despite a good deal of moody strumming, there is little in the way of tunes. With its self-conscious patternings and posturings, Cranks, at times, less resembles a revue than the rites of some such sect as the Stanislavsky methodists...
...surprise announcement by retiring President Harold W. Dodds came at a special Faculty meeting in Nassau Hall this afternoon, following the decision of the Trustees in the morning...