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Word: allowables (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wild Side. Floors? Wall-to-wall carpeting, once a status symbol, is giving way to area rugs, which allow polished wood floors to show handsomely, as in Decorator Anthony Hail's own San Francisco studio. Walls? The trend is away from stark, white-painted plaster and toward colors and textures. Decorator Frank Austin used burlap in Actress Polly Bergen's Beverly Hills living room; Decorator Arthur Elrod specified walnut wood and marble for Film Financier Eugene Klein's hilltop home near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home: Room for Every Taste | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

...that the monastic orders, most of which date from the Middle Ages, have been slower than most other branches to adopt the reforming spirit of the Second Vatican Council-although they are beginning to do so. Last year the Trappists modified their centuries-old tradition of silence, now allow monks more freedom to speak under certain circumstances. A number of convents have removed the forbidding iron-bar grilles that once separated the nuns from visitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: Woe Behind the Walls | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

Federal Roads Commissioner Lowell K. Bridwell agreed to allow a two-part review of the Belt. A six-month "feasibility" study will decide if the $300 million highway is still needed. A concurrent "joint development" plan will try to find ways to use the Model Cities and other federal programs to cushion the blow to the City if the road is built...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Bridwell Allows Inner Belt Study | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

...president theoretically had most of these powers under the old constitution, but the unsystematic decision-making process kept his hands tied. The new constitution's efficiency, some Cabinet members worry, may allow one man too much power over appointments and programs. The Cabinet does have some restraining power, however; if a majority of its members disagree with an executive decision, it may tell the Graduate Secretary to assemble a judiciary committee. This committee, consisting of Cabinet members, officers, and Faculty, with no faction in majority, is to make the final decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A New PBHA? | 2/8/1968 | See Source »

...sloppy third frame, Harvard combined poor defense with a non-existent attack to allow the Eaglets four straight goals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frosh Icemen Beaten; J.V.'s Tear Holy Cross | 2/8/1968 | See Source »

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