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...countries over the past 35 years rather than on the makeup of the U.S. population in 1920. The amendments would greatly increase immigration from Asia, Africa and Southern Europe (Japan's quota would rise from 185 to 1,859, Italy's from 5,666 to 19,945, etc.). As the end of Dwight Eisenhower's presidency draws near, Washington increasingly speculates about how it will feel to him to leave the White House for the comparative obscurity of private life. No man can surrender the pomp and power of the presidency without a sense of loss...
...rally billed as dramatic evidence of Teamster solidarity. Again he whaled away at Kennedy ("the handsome young man who never knew what it was to work with his hands"), as well as at Arkansas' Teamster-investigating Democratic Senator John McClellan, the Landrum-Griffin bill, radio, TV, the press, etc. But the meeting was a dud: of the 150,000 Teamsters in the New York area, only 10,000 showed up. "Frankly," explained a Hoffa aide, "it was a disappointing turnout, but we didn't want to put on the muscle...
...Irish Republic (hanging), France (guillotining) and Spain (garroting), and by the standards of 1800, executions in these countries are exceedingly rare. In Britain, by new (1957) legislation, the death penalty is carried out only for a few varieties of homicide classified as "capital murder" (killing a policeman, multiple murder, etc...
Windy & Thick. Bundles of each day's congressional proceedings begin arriving at the Government Printing Office in the early evening in order to meet the deadline. A force of 100 proofreaders checks the Senate and House proceedings, as well as the reprinted articles, tables, etc., that go into the Record's appendix. Representatives are entitled to 60 free copies of the Record each day, Senators 100; other users pay $1.50 a month...
Frontiers of Faith (NBC, 1:30-2 p.m.). Sir Cedric Hardwicke illustrates "The Grandeur and Misery of Man" with readings from Homer, the Bible, Shakespeare, Keats, Dylan Thomas, etc...