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An amparo (literally: protection) is a Mexican legal confection with elements of habeas corpus, stay of execution and injunction, all rolled into one. Anyone who feels that he has been or is about to be the victim of unjust police or court action may apply for an amparo. By its...
Born with Control. Playing summers in the U.S. and winters in Central and South America, Satchel Paige earned $36,000 one year, and spent it in handfuls (he has a white Lincoln, a red Cadillac, a red jeep, a pallid station wagon and an arsenal of over 20 shotguns). Lately...
Tuition averages $35 a month, including orange juice, milk, cookies and a hot lunch. The youngsters will speak both English and French, the two principal U.N. languages; they still lapse into their native tongues when excited. Mrs. Cowles believes in progressive education for the three-to six-year-olds-with...
Makers of cork and other forms of heat insulation were receiving orders for insulation of brewery vats. General Motors announced that the Frigidaire plants at Dayton had jumped from three-to six-day-a-week production, had in the last month spent $1,100,000 for new plant equipment. Reason...
In New Mexico and Arizona, tremendous prehistoric stone "apartment houses" were found, three-to five-story communal dwellings, some housing 600 to 1,200 Indians, whose hieroglyphics are not unlike those of the Chinese. The age of these cities was put between 2,000 and 5,000 years. In Roosevelt...