Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reader Tranter is almost right: Artist Safran did show a one-way street-and says no one yet has been able to control bicycle riders...
Like a voice from the wilderness, the report advocating birth control [Oct. 19] rings true. As Secretary of the Joint Committee of the World Council of Churches, Dr. Norman Goodall deserves recognition for the courage and insight to place this on record...
Under RELIGION, birth control is discussed in your Oct. 19 issue. The Rev. John Ford, a Jesuit professor, states that the use of contraceptives is a "violation of natural law." Does he speak of the "law of the jungle...
...downright corruption" in sales of surplus property. But Symington's SPA, as he pointed out to the committee, had only a policymaking function; actual sales of surplus property were handled by other agencies, mainly the Commerce Department and the Reconstruction Finance Corp. Symington had no operating control over sales, no way of seeing to it that his policies were carried out. After half a year of frustrations, he went to Truman and urged him to wrap policymaking and selling into a single agency. Truman abolished Symington's SPA, set up the War Assets Administration, with Lieut. General...
President Tweed's principal functions are representing the college and acting in a fund-raising capacity. Financially, he concedes, it is "a great handicap to have female alumnae," for it is their husbands that usually control the purse-strings. Active contributing by parents of undergraduates, however, adds to the success of an annual fund which generally nets about $100,000, sufficient to meet the college's basic needs...