Word: disbanded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...annual Old Boys' dinner, Widmerpool, as the man of the '30s, horrifies all by making a long, uninvited speech on economics. The old housemaster, a neurotic, twisted pillar of the Old Order, salutes the onset of economics by suffering a stroke, and the Old Boys disband to their dim and several destinies...
...Force announced last Thursday the withdrawal of its original plan to disband the units. A spokesman said the reason for the change in policy was that "good will and interest generated by the units outweigh the potential savings in money and manpower." He did not reveal that the units would be continued on a trial basis only, however...
...York State Athletic Commissioner Julius Helfand won a clear-cut decision in his fight to disband the Boxing Managers Guild (TIME, Dec. 26). James Dougan Norris, president of the International Boxing Club, announced that he could no longer deal with guild managers, and the guild began to come apart at the seams. One after another, managers who wanted to go on making a living in the boxing racket resigned. By playing ball with Helfand, Norris had put himself back in an old and profitable position-once more he is boss of boxing...
...stringent rules governing the forming of committees and running of conferences. Now every new committee must have a written outline stating its purposes before it can be formed and must convince Purkey that the purposes are worthwhile. When a committee's useful life is ended, it must disband. Discussions at meetings are held closely to the problem. Furthermore, only the board of directors and the executive committee have authority to make group decisions; every other conference group reports to an individual executive, and he alone makes decisions and takes the responsibility. As a result of Turkey's pruning...
Previously, members of the unit had expressed extreme dissatisfaction with the Air Force's decision to disband Harvard's AFROTC in 1957. One member of the staff had even advocated sending a petition to Washington protesting the action...