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...Executive intrusion upon its authority. Many outside the government, such as the Herald, claim that the General Court is the proper and most responsible body to make reforms. Still, the 13 amendments passed by the General Court since 1919 have been piecemeal revision, and the major ones that have gotten by one session, for instance the 4-year gubernatorial term, have perished the following year. Political interest and inertia make the Legislature a dubious source of initiative for reform...
...certainly an understandable temptation to throw the whole Apalachin crew into jail on general principles, but to many observers the convictions seemed a dangerous precedent. What the case added up to was legal incredulity at the notion that so many bums had gotten together for any innocent purpose...
...last week sent off to McLellan a personal check for $1,000. But in an accompanying letter of congratulations, impetuous Prizegiver Feynman earnestly warned: "Don't start writing small. I don't intend to make good on the other [prize]. In the meantime, I've gotten married and bought a house...
Last week before the Big Red's annual Thanksgiving Day game with Penn, word leaked out that head football coach George K. (Lefty) James had gotten the axe. After the 18-7 loss, James confirmed it in an official statement to the press: "...it appears to the University's best interests that I resign...
...distributes Peking's propaganda and possibly cash, and the head of the Bolivia's Miners Union is now en route home from China, sending back to local papers a series of flowery articles of praise. Brazil is a major target, and hundreds of prominent Brazilian leftists have gotten the red-carpet treatment in Peking. One of them is Francisco Juliāo, powerful leader of the Red-tinged Peasant Leagues, which battens on the misery of the rural millions in poverty-stricken northeast Brazil. After a Juliāo speech, the peasant poor now mutter grimly about land...