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...Jackson is opening Kona Village in September, which will consist of 130 cottages spread around a lagoon, each decorated and designed in Malayan, Fijian, Samoan or Tahitian style. Public facilities will be housed in an authentic long house built over the ruins of an old meeting house. Because a tortuous, seven-mile trail is all that connects the village with public highways and commercial airports, guests will have to be ferried in by private plane or boat...
Peyrefitte also goes through some tortuous onomastics to "prove" that dozens of famous people have Jewish ancestors. De Gaulle, for example, remarked during a visit to Germany in 1962 that he had a great-great-grandfather named Kolb. Indeed, there are three Kolbs listed in Who's Who in World Jewry. Voil...
...time for emergency measures. The President should propose new legislation to establish a Voting Commission, similiar to the present Civil Rights Commission, which would be authorized to appoint Federal voting registrars for any area in which the Commission found voting discrimination. This innovation would end the tortuous delays of the present judicial route...
...Time. County officials easily thwarted the drive by their tortuous registration procedures. Negroes stood in line for up to five hours a day waiting to enter Room 122 in the courthouse. During the two weeks only 93 got in, since only one applicant was admitted at a time. Each had to answer a series of biographical questions, then provide written answers in a 20-page test on the Constitution, federal, state and local governments. (Sample questions: Where do presidential electors cast ballots for President? Name two rights a person has after he has been indicted by a grand jury...
...first three decades of this century, all sorts of Americans were calling for revolution, but they meant quite different things by it. Some wanted revenge on a society that had neglected them; others, exasperated by the tortuous process of democracy, wanted an authoritarian master who would correct all injustice. Max Eastman simply wanted everybody to be as happy...