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...expects to abolish the 1947 Table of Allocations, which assigned frequencies by location throughout the country. This means that channel assignments will be made on first-come, first-serve basis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: F.C.C. May Let WHRB Change FM Frequency | 6/3/1958 | See Source »

...much sentiment" exists in the University for prohibiting student cars, he explained, adding that "it is better to get cars off the streets than abolish them." Bundy predicted that if students were prohibited from owning cars, a situation approaching the 18th Amendment might result, with "people using their grandmothers' names...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bundy Sees 'Not Much Sentiment' Favoring Banning Student Cars | 5/21/1958 | See Source »

...Moderator, 55-year-old Insuranceman Philip F. Howerton of Charlotte, N.C., the delegates defeated a scheme to use churches as schools to get around the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling against segregation in the public schools. They voted 288 to 124 against a well-organized minority drive to abolish the denomination's anti-segregation-minded Council on Christian Relations, then read into the record a ringing statement on race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Divorce & Segregation | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

Although a change in board rate--now almost an annual affair--is likely, no other apparent changes are expected in the dining halls system. Neither Reynolds nor Bundy had heard of a plan to abolish service on weekends in most of the Houses, as a Student Council report had indicated on Monday night. Both administrators felt that such a plan would be infeasible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reynolds Claims Board Rate Rise Probable in Fall | 5/7/1958 | See Source »

...body of water known as the High Seas. For one thing, argued U.S. Delegate Arthur Dean (Korean armistice negotiator and onetime law partner of John Foster Dulles), enemy submarines can find easier sanctuary in extended and therefore deeper territorial seas. Furthermore, the elimination of the three-mile limit would abolish the. free channels through such narrow bodies of water as the Strait of Gibraltar (7.75 miles wide at its narrowest point), could seriously hamper friendly naval movement between the islands of Indonesia. To the newer nations of the world, such arguments carried no weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL LAW: The Three-Mile Limit | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

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