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...words, "any provision of." The test of a treaty's validity, they argued, should be in the Constitution as an organic whole instead of in its separate sections. Said Missouri's Democratic Senator Thomas C. Hennings: "Under the Dirksen substitute, a provision of the Constitution could be torn from its context and used as the sole test of a treaty's validity. Furthermore, the proposed amendment would seem to apply to all existing as well as future treaties...
...Guatemala's backlands, torn by bitter years of a Communist-written land reform that set peasant against landholder, last week came a quietly revolutionary reform of the reform. Going well beyond the vague notion that landless Indians "ought" to have some of the big estates held by a few families, President Carlos Castillo Armas' decree aimed at raising the agricultural health of all Guatemala...
...French graduate student named Bernard de Fallois told Proustman André Maurois that he was planning a thesis on Proust. De Fallois, with Maurois' help, got permission from Marcel Proust's niece to explore the Master's belongings. Seventy notebooks and "several boxes of torn and detached pages" fell into De Fallois' hands, and he managed to piece together a novel "the existence of which nobody had so much as suspected." Jean Santeuil, written between 1896 and 1900, now appears in English translation for the first time-to the stately booming of literary big shots...
Half of the houses in Cambridge were built before 1900. Such buildings need, but do not get, continual maintainance and renovation if they are to provide safe, healthy homes. Yet at the present rate of replacement, the last will be torn down...
...great leaders sit idly by and preach a gospel of gradualism while the South is torn by violence," Howard said. It was the federal government's refusal to enforce desegregation that allowed violence to start at the University of Alabama, he asserted, "and unless prompt action is taken, such violence will spread...