Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Allow a word from one who served on a faculty committee that recommended him for an honorary degree from his alma mater Furman University...
...Most of the P.W.s suffered their worst treatment immediately after being captured. Some were forced to sit on a stool for days until they collapsed. Others, said Frishman, were hung by their arms from the ceiling. The fact that life improved when generals visited the camp led Frishman to allow that "possibly the higher-ups in North Viet Nam may not know the truth about our treatment." This supposition seems plausible. The North Vietnamese are extremely sensitive about U.S. public reaction to the war; coverage in the American press is carefully scrutinized by a special section of the government...
...Edmund Dinis. It will also rest significantly upon how far the presiding judge, James A. Boyle, permits Dinis to range in exploring not only the immediate circumstances of the accident but also the actions and omissions of Kennedy and his friends afterward. Last week Boyle indicated that he would allow Dinis considerable freedom. The judge ruled that he will not permit lawyers for Kennedy or any of the others who were at the Chappaquiddick party to cross-examine witnesses or to challenge the district attorney's questions on grounds of irrelevance...
...anyone from crossing it to bathe there. That prerogative derives from a colonial ordinance of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1641), which authorized only fishermen and hunters to cross a private beach. On the New Jersey shore, the snobbish resort of Deal forbids any waterfront property owner or occupant to allow even his own guests to swim from the beach. The rule has rarely been enforced in the past, but when the friends of a wealthy lumber dealer began splashing in the surf at a clambake this summer, the police issued a summons to one guest. He was later fined...
...total-though short of their old 190-city CBS line-up-includes most of the major U.S. population centers and some 90% of all U.S. households equipped with TV sets. Unlike most spliced-together syndication deals, the Smothers link-up will be simultaneous (air time: 8 p.m., everywhere) to allow for topical references and nationwide promotion and sponsorship...