Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steel plates and weighing 750 tons. Supported by two towers 185 ft. high, it pivots 360° on massive racks taken from turrets of dismantled battleships. The towers stand on twelve four-wheeled trucks that turn around a circle of railroad track. The combined motions of pivoting and turning allow the great reflector to point to any part...
...will probably be able to get new trials-or outright acquittals from the Supreme Court. Furthermore, there is scant hope of convicting many of the 27 awaiting trial because of the double impact of the California Communist decisions and the Jencks decision (TIME, June 17) requiring the Government to allow defendants to see pertinent FBI files-or drop the case. If anyone doubted before, last week made it clear that the Supreme Court under Earl Warren was building a new wing to the temple of American law-even at the cost of razing an old wing, hard-built...
...When the Colorado State Athletic Commission decided to allow Lightweight Champion Joe Brown and Challenger Orlando Zulueta to use 6-oz. instead of 8-oz. gloves for their title tight in Denver, Zulueta's manager, Hymie ("The Mink") Wallman, screamed like a mink. Light gloves, insisted Hymie, were made to order for a slugger like Brown. They seemed to be. Brown waded into Zulueta's flicking jab for 13 rounds, then dropped him for a count of nine. The challenger went down again in the 15th, and Slugger Joe Brown held on to his title with a T.K.O...
...wisdom of his policy of "let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend": "Marx never said that he should not be criticized. To those who do not follow that teaching of Marx, I would address an old saying: he who does not allow himself to be criticized during his life will be criticized after death." And last week, as an encouragement to some understandably timid flowers, the Peking regime released Author Hu Feng, whose arrest in 1955 was the keystone of a campaign to silence China's intellectuals...
...SHOW PASSENGERS, who cost U.S. airlines an estimated $10 million in lost revenue last year, will be penalized for failing to make good on their reservations. CAB will require passengers to reconfirm reservations on some flights at least six hours before flight time, and allow airlines to impose a $3-per-ticket penalty on no-shows...