Word: permited
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Permit me to be the first to nominate the character who crawled out from under a piece of brotchen just long enough to take a quick look at Wiesbaden and have the unmitigated gall to depict the true life of "Americans Abroad...
Last week Antenor Patiño, 65, head of what was once the richest of Bolivia's tin baronies, agreed in principle to a loan of $5,000,000 to the Bolivian government tin corporation. In return, Paz promised to let through a law that would permit Patiño to divorce his first wife, Princess Maria Cristina de Borbón (a niece of Spain's last monarch, Alfonso XIII), and clear up any bigamous misgivings over the status of Patiño's second wife, Beatriz María Julia de Rivera Degeon...
Next step for the C. & O. will be to ask the Interstate Commerce Commission to permit the exchange of stock to give C. & O. control of the B. & O. Tuohy insists on control as a first step toward merger, since he wants to make some changes in the financial structure of the debt-ridden B. & O., notably alter a clause requiring that a $23 million bond issue be paid up if the B. & O. merges. After that, he intends to push for complete merger of the C. & O. and B. & O., which would create a vast railroad net rivaled only...
...probe consists of a satellite to be launched in 1962 that will attempt to photograph Mars at close range. The Freshmen proposed that instead of storing the photographs on magnetic tape, the satellite should be equipped with video tape. The video tape would permit the probe to take and store more than 500 photographs when the satellite was closest to Mars, instead of the four or five possible was magnetic tape...
...three proposed alternatives to the present electoral system keeps this important liberal advantage. Even the advocates of direct popular election admit that the Southern and small states would never permit it, and it is thus out of the question. Nor is the plan whereby a state's votes would be allocated proportionate to its popular vote wise from the liberal point of view; in fact, this plan is favored by the one-party South precisely because it would split the votes of the great populous urban states, leaving the Southern vote unified. A third formula, to elect electors from Congressional...