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...Relation, he felt that he knew English well enough to try it out on a date with an American exchange students who was soon leaving for the U.S. After she politely explained to him that Biblical language is no longer used, ("How was I to know it was archaic?" said Taubes) she described a friend it was archaic?" said Taubes) she described a friend of hers who was "brilliant and beautiful, and locked herself in the library at night to study." Taubes arrived in American and met an American girl to whom he was soon engaged. When he told...
Under Brazil's archaic voting system, each ballot is sealed in a separate envelope at the polling place; tellers at the central counting stations must verify each envelope, open it by hand, and record the choices. There was a lot of recording to do: up for election were all 327 House of Deputies seats, two-thirds of the 60 Senate's seats, eleven out of 20 state governorships, and many lesser offices. In Rio's Maracana Stadium last week, 60 groups of election clerks counted away amid milling onlookers, nervous candidates, Coca-Cola vendors and party observers...
Take, for example, the National Origins system, keystone of the entire immigration program, which determines who can come here and who can stay. This archaic method for determining "quotas", the number of immigrants who are allowed here from any one country in any single year, was first devised 30 years ago. It is still based on the 1920 white population...
Those who have ever seen a street sweeper's truck clanking around Cambridge at five in the morning know how archaic the machines are. If anyone could stay critical at that hour, there would probably be an outcry from a public used to watching their high powered servants perform at supersonic speeds. But the new speed fad hardly bothers the sweepers. They still prefer picking up the newspaper shreds of a high-charged world at the laconic pace of six miles an hour...
...principals in Rob Roy, Actor Todd and Actress Johns, are the same Disney used in The Sword and the Rose-Todd was in Robin Hood too-and they play the man and maid with a pleasant innocence and archaic grace. Actors Gough and Justice, also in the previous pictures, are admirable swashbucklers both. The local types are nicely interpolated-a red-cheeked Gaelic extra makes such a vivid vernacular dither with a Highland air that she steals a big scene from the lovers...