Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Never once did the British allow themselves to be drawn into the political wrangling. Instead, they contented themselves with a mild statement at the end of the meeting explaining that "our silence'' meant, not agreement with the anticolonial remarks, but only a "desire to preserve harmony." When Guinea, the only French territory to vote non to De Gaulle, proposed a resolution asking for special consideration from the U.N. in view of its "desertion" by France, the French merely stared ahead in silence, did not even bother to vote against the resolution. Africa's independent nations were clearly...
...before any perfect peace set in, the rebels were determined to allow themselves a wave of revenge against the conquered foe. Last week some 28 lesser Batista officials, left behind when the top dogs fled, were convicted in kangaroo courts and shot; another nine were executed without benefit of trial at all. Typical victims: Santiago's Maritime Police Chief Alejandro Garcia Olayón, Santa Clara's Police Chief Cornelio Rojas (see cuts). After one execution drew a crowd of 3,000, the rebels ruled that spectators would henceforth be barred-but allowed to inspect the bodies afterward...
...favor of any rule, not necessarily a two-platoon system, that would allow us to use more players per game and more specialists," Yovicsin stated, calling a more liberal substitution allowance "more important to the Crimson than any other suggested change...
...Wellesley summer theatre organization has protested against MEBAC's original plan to allow only the Cambridge Drama Festival to use the new site, which the Metropolitan District Commission plans to lease to MEBAC...
Nelson W. Aldrich, vice-president of MEBAC, said yesterday that "if the Group 20 Players prove themselves capable of the quality of performance we require, we will certainly allow them to share the new theatre...