Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...citizenship. A young merchant seaman named Jack Hall jumped ship in Honolulu in 1935 and, forming an alliance with Red-lining Harry Bridges, boss of the West Coast International Longshoreman's and Warehouseman's Union (I.L.W.U.), waved the flag of unionism. Organizer Hall planned first to win control of the vulnerable shipping points on the docks, then move boldly inland toward the vast sea of laborers in the pineapple and sugar fields...
Under a law that went into the books in 1950, the five-member Subversive Activities Control Board ruled in 1953 that the Communist Party of the U.S. was subversive, had to register with the U.S. Government, disclose its revenue sources, names and addresses of its members. In 1956 the Supreme Court upset the ruling. In 1957 the U.S. Court of Appeals bounced out a similar ruling. But in Washington last week the Court of Appeals finally upheld the Subversive Activities Control Board, 2 to 1. "The preponderance of all the evidence," wrote Chief Judge E. Barrett Prettyman, is that...
Last week, under a constitutional provision empowering the President to assume control of any state government that is unable to function in accordance with the constitution, Prasad formally took over troubled Kerala until new elections could be held...
...taboos-stemming mostly from public moral attitude-center on indecency, concentrated coverage of crime, advocacy of birth control, and offense to the clergy. Dublin's biggest daily, the Irish Independent, built its circulation (171,728) on the boast that it could be read by the oldest mother superior in the smallest convent in Ireland without bringing a blush to her cheeks...
...System,Development Corp. in Santa Monica, Calif., an eleven-man team under Engineer Charles J. Roach, 38, has figured after a half-year study that no fewer than six areas invite automation. Of greatest direct interest to the patient: taking and "retrieval" of case histories; diagnosis and treatment; automated control of a medical procedure, e.g., anesthesia during an operation...