Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the memorandum explains that "freshmen, as in the past, may wish to visit the Houses during the winter and may wish to talk to members of House staffs," the new system does not provide for House interviews or a specific effort to acquaint the freshman class with the Houses...
People who think the Far Right took the ten count last November should visit California's 27th Congressional District. This grotesquely shaped hunk of Los Angeles County was designed, by a Democratic legislature, to get rid of a Republican Congressman who was a member of the John Birch Society. The voters cooperated in 1962. But in 1964, the Democratic Congressman retired, and the Republican candidate--who stands perhaps 1 to the left of Birch--won. The 27th was one of four Congressional Districts outside the South to go Democratic in 1962 and Republican in 1964. And it is no coincidence...
...United States. Celebrating the anniversary of that day this year at his annual birthday luncheon in Kansas City, Mo., Harry smilingly accepted a million-dollar pledge for the Truman Library Institute, where scholars study the history he made. But what really turned on his grin was a visit to Hello, Dolly! the night before. Stepping in front of the curtain, Leading Lady Mary Martin, 51, called out a special "Hello, Harry!" and got the whole audience to join her in singing "Happy Birthday...
Foreiqn Leeway. Zemel v. Rusk produced three sharp dissenters (alt in the Aptheker majority). Justice William O. Douglas insisted that Americans should be allowed to visit Communist countries in order to understand them. The First Amendment, he said, "presupposes a mature people, not afraid of ideas." Justice Arthur Goldberg argued that Congress in 1926 merely tried to "centralize the issuance of passports," which were once wildly dispensed by U.S. mayors and even notaries. Justice Hugo Black called the 1926 law unconstitutional. Only Congress can make laws "restricting the liberty of our people," said Black...
...with special terminology and nuances and frequently devoted to esoteric concerns. It is peopled by able and articulate men who call each other by their first names, nip off to Paris, Basel or London as a matter of routine and keep in constant touch by telephone, cable and personal visits. On a recent visit to Britain, William McChesney Martin Jr., chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, spent three hours tramping through the fields with Lord Cromer, the governor of the Bank of England, at his country home in Kent. "It makes a big difference," says Martin, "if you feel that...