Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prime Minister Harold Macmillan had no intention of being stampeded into a general election, was clearly counting on time to allow his policy of austerity to pay off. Said Macmillan calmly: "The great thing is to get the timing right-to have the downs between elections and the ups at the elections...
...under a new Immunities and Privileges Act, Asian diplomats will receive a special permit entitling them to order a cup of tea without being thrown out of the tearoom. Indian newspapers fumed that the Federation permit "is in itself an act of racial discrimination. No self-respecting country can allow its envoys to go about demanding civilized treatment on the strength of such chits of paper." Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru himself seemed equally unsatisfied to accept apologies as a substitute for immediate and constructive action. Last week he told his Parliament that India will break diplomatic relations with the Federation...
...practice of allowing a man to be a member of more than one undergraduate social fraternity once existed at Harvard. Baird's Manual of American Fraternities verifies this as it names T.R. as a member of both Deke and Alpha Delt. As a result, Delta Kappa Epsilon honors Roosevelt as one of its greatest members, and we do not feel inclined to allow Alpha Delta Phi exclusive claim...
...conviction, "I am of course saddened. But as Prime Minister I can only believe that justice must take its course." At week's end the Vatican itself seemed ready to trim its tone to the nation's mood. "The time has come," said Osservatore Romano, "to allow things to return to equilibrium...
...schools have turned into public-supported playrooms (see above) got some sharp if incomplete statistical support from a survey of Texas schools by a group of ten Texas school superintendents and school-board members. Of the schools giving answers to various questions of the survey, 112 out of 232 allow private music and/or dancing lessons on school time; 188 out of 220 give credit for band time, physical education, chorus, etc.; 166 out of 218 allow athletic teams to eat up school hours with practice sessions. ¶More than half the nation's 23,746 public high schools...