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...Harsh Method." The squeeze was on in the House too. Chief agent of delay there was Virginia's Democratic Congressman William Tuck, 67, and his proposal brooked no "unusual circumstances"; it simply prohibited the federal courts from moving into reapportionment cases period. Tuck's proposal was bogged down in the Judiciary Committee until last week, when Virginia's Judge Howard Smith, boss of the Rules Committee, obligingly lifted it out of Judiciary and started it on its way to the House floor...
...Valley, Solomon Levi, Oh Johnny, Turkey in the Straw, Red Wing and other classics with Fenton ("Jonesy") Jones as the caller. Jonesy's instructions are melodious and comparatively easy to follow, intended for initiates into these arcane rites, e.g., "Box the flea," and "Allemande left with a high tuck a shaw/Take a little bow with your mother...
...humanitarian purposes," said Delegate Vincente Sánchez Gavito. "It is a way out of Cuba." Uruguay opposed a break for the same reason-to maintain its Havana embassy where some two dozen anti-Castro Cubans are currently in asylum. Chile's problem was its nip-and-tuck September 4 presidential election; a vote for sanctions might hand the presidency to a far leftist. As for Bolivia, President Víctor Paz Estenssoro has been winning his fight against his country's far leftists, but still did not feel strong enough to go along with the majority...
...social services began at the end of the 19th century, but were pulled together in the Social Reform Act of 1933. Denmark's efficient farmers, who own 90% of their land, have largely financed refinements in the system that have left virtually nothing undone, short of nurses to tuck the pampered citizenry into bed at night. Fact is, even that service is available-from members of the Home Help Service, a new wrinkle which provides domestic help for sick housewives...
When the Houses were first established, Owen explained, many students were afraid they would have a "prep school atmosphere." "You could almost imagine tutors being assigned to tuck the boys in at night. In my weaker moments, I have often regretted that this particular aspect did not materialize...