Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only the Beginning. In a unanimous gesture almost without parallel in postwar Germany, the Bundestag last week passed a bill that does not abolish investigative arrest but will certainly curb its abuses. The bill now goes to the Bundesrat (upper house), where it is certain to be quickly approved. Once the new law is in effect, before a judge may permit a suspect to be jailed the prosecutor must submit concrete factual evidence that the suspect intends to flee or tamper with testimony. A suspect will be guaranteed the right to refuse to testify against himself, the opportunity to refute...
...maybe most important, he is learning to curb his generosity. Until he smashed the record last month, Hansen's main claim to fame was that he lent John Fennel the pole he used to set the old record of 17 ft. ¾in. From now on, Fennel will have to buy his own. Says Hansen: "You know, he never did give that darned pole back...
Another depressant is Europe's inflation, and government measures to curb it. De Gaulle's "Stabilization Plan" froze prices but not labor costs, thus pinched profits and further reduced industry's short supplies of expansion capital. In Italy the government has tightened credit to slow Europe's worst inflation. Says Fiat Vice Chairman Giovanni Agnelli: "There's such a shortage of investment capital now that many industrialists are selling shares at any price to get money...
...down with Khrushchev, and then agreed to a communique that spoke of "friendship," "cordiality," even of "monolithic unity" among Communists. He probably promised to seek support for Moscow among the Communist parties in nonaligned lands of Africa and Asia. There was no sign that Tito was ready to help curb the satraps' growing independence from Muscovy, whose rule in Eastern Europe remains of course preponderant but is never likely to be quite the same again...
...color, never anything she has ever worn before or will again. The audience surges forward. She crosses the sidewalk in seven steps or three seconds. Hamlet follows her, not all that melancholy.* She flashes a sudden dazzling, billiondollar smile and slips into the limousine purring in wait at the curb. It pulls out slowly, flanked by mounted policemen on either side, and creeps leisurely down the center of the street. From the back seat she smiles again, lifts a hand and delivers a wave the way Elizabeth II never properly learned...