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...McCarran Act is a serious threat to the future scientific development of the United States, Norman f. Ramsey, Jr., professor of Physics, charged yesterday. Speaking at the Law School Coffee Hour, Ramsey attached the bill on two counts...
...second main objection, Ramsey explained is that under former immigration laws many of America's most important physicists entered the country without being subject to the regular immigration quota. But under the McCarran Act this is impossible, with the result that the movement of foreign scientific talent to this country will slow down or cease...
Three groups either probing or planning investigations are the Velde, McCarran, and McCarthy committees...
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (Boris Christoff; the Russian Choirs of Paris and the French National Radio Orchestra, conducted by Issay Dobrowen; H.M.V., 4 LPs). Bulgarian Basso Christoff has been denied a visa to the U.S. (he flunked his McCarran test), but, from the recorded sound of his voice, he belongs with the very best of living bassos. Christoff gives the role of Boris magnificent power and dignity as well as splendid singing, and the whole production is outstanding...
Shakespeare & Gangsters. As a result of such wild reporting in Britain's press many a Briton is led to believe that the U.S. is dominated by Senators Joe McCarthy and Pat McCarran, and that it is a slick, grossly materialistic country populated by bathing beauties, crooners, gangsters and political strong-arm men. Americans have a stereotype of Britain too, says the Manchester Guardian's U.S. Correspondent Alistair Cooke, but it is usually a flattering picture of "Shakespeare, dignified gentlemen, and so on," while Britons, from their press, often think the U S is made up of "jukeboxes, gangsters...