Word: code
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fascination with the subject often shadowed other elements in the painting. Samuel Morse, famous for his telegraph code, painted a seene of a room at the Louvre with an array of well dressed young artists beside their casels in front of a wall striped with the old masters. The painting offered instruction to the American public about art treasure on the other side of the Atlantic. Today the minute imitation of more than thirty paintings crowded on the museum wall make a pattern of curiosities for the eve to probe. Morse used mellow tones in his graceful storv of European...
...unfair-labor-practice code should be applied to Congress, for certainly tying the President's corporation plan to a pay raise was not bargaining in good faith...
...went over the chemin de fer tables at Crockford's, which ranked as one of London's oldest and plushest gambling clubs. Founded in 1827, Crockford's was forced to close because its owners' backgrounds did not meet the rigid standards of the new gambling code. George Raft's Colony Sporting Club on Berkeley Square is also shuttered, and Raft himself has been declared persona non grata by the Home Office. Other closings will certainly follow; by year's end Britain's casinos may be reduced in number to only...
More Harm than Good. Despite such arguments, the Tanzanian Parliament, which has 179 males and only seven females, overwhelmingly indicated its approval of the new code. When the bill comes up for a formal vote, perhaps at Parliament's session next June, it is virtually certain to be enacted. The ladies of Tanzania did not accept defeat gracefully. "Let the men marry as many wives as they please," shrugged Lucy Lameck, the Member of Parliament from Kilimanjaro Central. "They will come to realize that they are doing more harm than good to themselves...
About 30 members of the group-which includes some undergraduate members of the New College Group-entered the building yesterday morning. Students set up silk screening facilities and printed dozens of posters reading, "This building condemned under Article 2, People's Code: all buildings used for oppression are to be returned to their rightful owners, the people." Groups swept halls and covered exposed electrical wires with tape...