Word: circuit
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...hold the levers of congressional power in Washington were born before the century began. In a recent address to the National Press Club, former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare John Gardner noted that since 1958, by act of Congress, the chief judges of federal district and circuit courts have been required to give up all administrative duties at age 70. Gardner suggested that Congress itself ought to follow suit...
...that they want to return to normal diplomatic behavior. Their embassies, which for months remained forbiddingly closed to guests, have begun to entertain once more. The Chinese embassy in Moscow has imported a cook from Hupeh province whose spiced cabbage and chicken receives favorable mention on the diplomatic dinner circuit. Recent European guests (no Americans have been invited) reported that the atmosphere becomes somewhat stiff after dinner, when each visitor is seated individually with a Chinese and subjected to a quiz on such issues as Soviet intentions in Europe and his own government's policies...
Southern segregationists suffered another rebuff last week from the Supreme Court. Last fall, in Holmes v. Alexander, the court told 33 Mississippi school districts to desegregate "at once." The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit carried out that order by giving the districts only until Dec. 31. But when 16 more districts in six Southern states came up for consideration last month, the Fifth Circuit faltered; it gave those districts, and by implication the rest of the South, until next fall to integrate student bodies. Last week the Supreme Court knocked down the "next fall" provision and ordered...
...book is about the twenty-first century: but it's no guided tour. Reading it is like grappling with a huge primary source. You can walk around and hear what the people are saying: Hitripping, Yaginol, muckers, yonderboys, Shalmaneser, Yatakang, Engrelay satelsery. Mr. and Mrs. Everywhere, the shiggie circuit, the Too Much strain . . . whatinole are these people talking about? Nobody's going to tell you, codder. You have to figure...
...adolescent Raquel could have borne a touch of humility. A high Latin ridge gave her nose an unattractive hook; she was affectionately known around school as "Birdlegs." Then she began to grow in all directions, and soon became an established figure on the beauty contest circuit. She won her first local contest at 15; later she was named Miss La Jolla, Miss San Diego, and finally Maid of California. Says Don Diego, who ran another contest she captured called the Fairest of the Fair Festival: "There were prettier girls around, but none had her figure or her drive. Most girls...