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...agricultural reporting as a staffer on the Kansas City Star. Reporter Art White was a town boy in city territory (Orange, N.J.) who has what might be called a consuming interest in agriculture. After one magnificent dinner at the Shuman farm, both White and his subject had to suspend the interview for an afternoon nap. Researcher Pat Gordon, who comes from Houston and remembers pleasant vacations on her grandfather's ranch in western Texas, is now trying her luck with avocado plants in her apartment in Manhattan...
Colleges and universities around the country begin to fire or suspend professors who refuse to testify before congressional committies by invoking the fifth amendment...
...mainly because of the implacable opposition of the trade unions to the whole idea. Union leaders are still haunted by memories of 1933, when Adolf Hitler, upon the famous pretext of the Reichstag fire, used Article 48, the emergency provision of the Weimar Republic's constitution, to suspend constitutional guarantees and turn the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich...
Automatic Trigger. The heart of the Senate bill is the "automatic triggering device." Under its terms, federal registrars (or "examiners," as the bill calls them) will be empowered to suspend literacy tests and register voters without them in states and counties where 1) such tests were used as a voting qualification as of last Nov. 1, and 2) less than 50% of the voting-age population were registered to vote or actually cast ballots in the 1964 presidential election. The device will automatically send federal examiners into Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and a number of counties in other...
...danger was cited-but the remedy remained a "Meeting of Consultation." OAS meetings have never in the past been known for swift or decisive action. In more than six years of blatant Castro subversion-by-export, the OAS has had scores of meetings' managed at most to suspend trade with Cuba except for food and medicine, and bar diplomatic relations with Havana (Mexico has ignored the latter...