Premise: But only with respect to legal matters relating to wages, housing, transportation, and other employment rights as provided in the worker's specific contract under which the nonimmigrant was admitted.

Hypothesis: Housing and transportation aren't among the legal matters listed.
Answer: no

Premise: Today, such a book--not that Wachtler has written one--would be greeted with a shrug.

Hypothesis: Wachtler's book is the seminal piece to his career.
Answer: no

Premise: He's good stuff, too served in the cavalry.... Kells studied the young man by the mule.

Hypothesis: He was never a soldier.
Answer: no

Premise: Then I got up as softly as I could, and felt in the dark along the left-hand wall.

Hypothesis: The wall was wet.
Answer: it is not possible to tell