Word: rigidities
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Died. Marion Edwards Park, 84, the third president (1922-42) of high-ranking Bryn Mawr College, who did much to liberalize the rigid curriculum by permitting more electives, in 1926 daringly urged her graduates to seek a career-for a year, at least; of arteriosclerotic heart disease; in Plymouth, Mass...
...flourished at the end of World War II. After Nelson had tightened his swing, Venturi surprised the golfing world as an amateur of 24 by nearly winning the 1956 Masters (he blew up on the last day with an eight-over-par 80). Many pros think that Venturi's rigid, blueprint approach to golf is the main reason he has never won a major tournament. Admits Nelson: "Ken accepted what I told him as law, maybe to the point of overdoing it." But Venturi has begun to steady an erratic putter, is the chief threat to Palmer's domination...
...AGRICULTURE : he has consistently opposed Ezra Benson's flexible price supports, upheld rigid high price supports...
Swarthy? The trouble burst with the public revelation, during a court squabble between one property owner and his neighbors, that the Grosse Pointe Property Owners Association (973 families) and local real estate brokers had set up a rigid system for screening families who want to buy or build homes in Grosse Pointe. Unlike similar communities, where neighborhood solidarity is based on an unwritten gentleman's agreement, Grosse Pointe's screening system is based on a "written questionnaire, filled out by a private investigator on behalf of Grosse Pointe's "owner-vigilantes...
...Affairs in the regimes of Daniel Malan and Johannes Strijdom, genial Dr. Verwoerd fashioned South Africa's tough segregation decrees. Using such criteria as the shape of noses and kinkiness of hair, his system classifies blacks, mixed-blood coloreds and Asians by race, then allocates to each a rigid, underprivileged place in society, in which his residence, travel, employment-even his drink-can be determined by government officials. The editor of the National Party's pro-Nazi Die Transvaler during World War II, Verwoerd once fought a humanitarian scheme to provide haven in South Africa for a shipload...