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...general counsel for the Federal Power Commission, as the $1.8 billion-a-year natural gas pipeline industry began to feel the impact of a precedent-setting court decision. Handed down recently by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the little publicized ruling would i) greatly curtail FPC's authority to control interstate natural gas prices, and 2) give every major gas consumer the power to block a rate increase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL & GAS: The Customer Comes First | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

...Student Council will be forced to curtail some of its activities unless it receives the remainder of its pledge money, Council President Larry Johnson '58 reported yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Lacks Pledged Money; Projects May Face Curtailment | 11/9/1957 | See Source »

Mindful of the Big Ten's code of football purity and eager to show that service with Coach Duffy Daugherty's undefeated assassins does not curtail a young scholar's other activities, Michigan State's athletic department posed hefty (6 ft., 200 Ib.) sophomore Guard Russ Kelly, 25, with his four major courses: Nick, 7, Kurt, 6, Marilyn, 4, and Terry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 21, 1957 | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...Police have begun ticketing motor scooters and motorcycles that are parked illegally on University property or across sidewalks, and plan to give tickets to speeders along University-owned Divinity Avenue and near Kirkland in a campaign to curtail accidents. They are also ticketing scooters parked in the Yard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Administration Will Crack Down On Motorcycles, Motor Scooters | 10/17/1957 | See Source »

With the prospect of having drastic social changes forced upon them by the faculty unless a solution were found, student leaders met early this week to formulate changes which would meet with the approval of the Committee on Student Activities and at the same time not curtail too seriously the traditions associated with the Spring and Fall weekends...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Growing Up At Cornell | 10/5/1957 | See Source »

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