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...years, a bill proposing a form of Universal Military Training has finally reached the House Rules Committee. The bill, H.R. 4278, is now pigconholed there by a six to six deadlock of the group. However, there are indications that the proponents of the measure will be able to sway to their side the one vote necessary to put the issue on the floor of the House...
First they banned the Rashtriya Sway-am Sewak Sangh (Organization for Service to the Nation), militant Hindu youth organization of which Gandhi's assassin, Nathu Ram Vinayak Godse, was a member. Some 1,200 leaders and members were arrested for questioning. The secret R.S.S.S., which had mushroomed to a membership of about 2,000,000 since the communal riots began last year, drew most of its strength from the warlike Mahratta people of western India, who have always regarded the Moslems as invading interlopers...
...Like This. . . In Springfield, Mass., Joseph A. Passineau was acquitted of drunkenness when he explained that he was a bulldozer driver, persuaded the jury that his stagger was really an "occupational sway...
Some of the Negro congregation began to murmur the words of the hymn the choir was singing, "How sweet it is to know Him, Jesus Christ divine." Slowly choir and congregation began to sway and clap and stomp to the rhythm. People in the audience jiggled and jounced up & down shouting "Oh Lord, tell a story!" A mother pushed her child from her lap, crying "Oh Jesus, I'll fly away...
...girdling her hips. Obviously nervous, dressed in a square-shouldered white gown, Lena flashed her magnificent teeth in the spotlight and curtsied demurely. Then, as the lights went down and the rhythm began to pad out softly behind her, she slithered cosily up to the mike and began to sway. First she gave them It's Just One of Those Things in a low and sultry voice. By the time she came to the line, "Our love affair was too hot not to cool down," the French found Lena's English perfectly translatable. And when she finished...