Word: coding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York from death by overcrowding is to regulate the use of residential buildings so that no more than 10,940,000 people can ever live in the city-compared to the 55 million who could legally crowd in under present zoning laws. Taking aim at an antiquated zoning code, the survey recommended: ¶ A quick halt to the conversion of apartments to rooming houses. ¶Provisions encouraging ground-level plazas around skyscrapers and apartment houses; for example, buildings with extra-sized plaza space would be allowed floor space beyond the prescribed limits. ¶ Reduction of commercial acreage by almost...
Summing up, Judge Douglas put the issue in a way that made many a newspaperman cringe. Said he: "We have here a case which is a clash between the code of the newspaper fraternity and the law of the land as I conceive it to be." Most members of the fraternity could not help feeling that the code, at least in this case, was spattered by some embarrassing stains...
...took off in a rented airplane and dropped three packages into the Thames estuary. The packages contained, respectively, the head, legs and torso of a used-car dealer named Stanley Setty, who had quarreled with Hume. A present-day Mack the Knife, Hume was true to his Threepenny Opera code: "If you have an enemy, get rid of him." He had stabbed Setty to death and dismembered...
Nevertheless, the University continued to emphasize clean living and disclaimed any policies of athletic recruiting or favoritism. Coach Yovicsin repeated his pledge to play the games "within the Ivy League Code," which everyone interpreted as meaning another losing year for the Varsity. And, despite the article about God and Charlie Ravenel at Harvard in Sports Illustrated, the Crimson was still losing more than it was winning...
Follow the Leader. Eisenhower Backer Halleck (who golfs with Ike at Burning Tree more than anybody else on Capitol Hill) became majority leader for the second time after Eisenhower's 1952 victory. His party loyalty code soon led him to support policies of the middle-roading Administration, e.g., public housing, reciprocal trade, foreign aid, with the same narrow-eyed gung ho he had mustered against the same programs for 17 years. He did not flinch. "Damn you, you've got to be with us on this one," he twanged at reluctant colleagues. "The President needs your support...