Word: permitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kistiakowsky has sandwiched a series of special defense jobs between his experimental work and teaching duties at Harvard. He lives with his wife, Nebraska-born Irma Shuler, in Lincoln, Mass., likes to ski, takes his Scotch with water. When Lincoln's town fathers refused Explosives Expert Kistiakowsky a permit to dynamite some stumps on his acreage, he flashed the Manhattan Project Medal for Merit citation awarded him by President Truman, got a green light-and blew the stumps skyhigh...
...routine interest to most Americans; six unknown men were running to retain their places on the school board of a fair-sized U.S. city. But this was Little Rock, 20 months after segregationist rioting blazed into world headlines and 8½-months after the high schools closed rather than permit Negro children to sit with whites. This election was, in fact, a crucial test of whether Little Rock was ready to begin its return to sanity. Little Rock...
Last week U Nu was campaigning furiously-or as furiously as a Buddhist's placidity will permit-to rebuild his political power and get the military back into the barracks. In a May Day speech, he proposed a "struggle to win hearts," declaring that the country "is being confronted with the worst situation since independence. People cannot enjoy fundamental rights; in fear of the authorities they keep silent." His remedy seemed to be something approaching a civil disobedience campaign: "If a participant in the nonviolent struggle should be arrested, or beaten or tortured or murdered, we must show...
...sugar executive. "It's confiscation!" Said another: "We're sort of sick here." Sugarmen talked hopefully about one provision in the law: the newly created National Agrarian Reform Institute can let foreigners own land when "beneficial for the development of the national economy." This loophole may permit the companies to stay on until they can find buyers for the land. But losses will be heavy. The price of sugar land has already dropped by half from a year ago, and shares of the affected companies have lost up to 21 points...
...derive special satisfaction from the fact that this conference is sponsored by private interests [the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Academy of Science]. The Federal Government, with its vast resources, could largely . . . blunt private initiative and individual opportunity. This we must never permit." Government's role: "a persistent partnership" with private institutions...