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...lifting a knee while the trainer was inspecting his ankle), the Dancer stands stone calm as the groom sponges off the sleek grey hide and gives the legs a liniment wash. "He knows me lak' a book," says Murray. "An' I knows him. We gets along." Mutters a visitor: "That guy sure has faith in that grey horse." Now almost finished, Murray takes hold of the dark grey tail and pulls his 200-plus pounds to his feet. "That's how I stand up," Murray laughs. The Dancer hardly moves a muscle...
Giuseppe Sarto became Bishop of Mantua, then Cardinal Patriarch of Venice. He was still poor, still giving away his few belongings and launching quixotic business ventures to help his flock. To one visitor he complained that a gold watch he had been given was engraved with the patri archal arms and therefore could not be pawned. When Pope Leo XIII died in 1903 and Cardinal Sarto had to go to Rome for the conclave, he did not have enough money for the railroad fare and the Catholic bank in Venice refused to lend it to him. He got his loan...
...language lessons. Even the most fluent linguists usually need a refresher course in such staples as French, German, Spanish, Portuguese or Italian. Some other languages with which TIME correspondents have grappled: Dutch, Arabic, Russian, Hindi, Tamil, Urdu, Korean, Afrikaans, Greek, Japanese and Chinese. There was, for example, the lady visitor who recently walked into TIME'S Rome office and heard two staff members chatting heatedly in Japanese. Said she: "This organization should be located somewhere east of Suez...
...that the law takes almost no account of the different status of temporary and permanent visas. Both immigrants and visiting scientists are subjected to a painstaking routine of highly personal probing into their past political affiliations, even for a short visit. The sole exception made for a temporary visitor is to allow him to appeal to the Attorney General, after a written admission of his own political ineligibility to enter. Such a written statement is completely unacceptable to most scientists, for it implies a political position they do not hold...
...determined. But the applicant cannot know when his application will be acted upon, much less hope to predict if a quota space will be open. If there is no, the student is immediately deportable, for he has lost his temporary student status simply by applying. Moreover, the exchange visitor is not even eligible for adjustment under section 245: he must return to his homeland before being allowed to apply for immigrant status. Thus, the Filipino girl mentioned, had to return to the islands in order to be allowed to come here...