Word: edict
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Wedding Bells. In Springfield, Mo., Anna L. Hindman, suing for divorce, charged that her TV-engineer husband wired their bed with an electric "shocking machine" to enforce his edict that four hours of sleep a night is enough...
...News itself. Editor Martin S. Hayden, no Shriner, coolly advised the Shrine to stay out of his newsroom. Fraternal Editor Fuller, said Hayden, was "appointed to that position without prior consultation with the Imperial Potentate of the Shrine, and he will remain in that capacity regardless of imperial edict." In brief, the Shrine could go soak...
...threat to their profits. In 1951 the Association of Textile Wholesalers and Retailers pressured small firms to prevent them from subcontracting to make goods for Neckermann. He sued for damages, and in postwar Germany's liberal economic climate won his case and forced the association to rescind its edict. Moving out of his barracks into an eleven-story Frankfurt building, Neckermann fattened his catalogue, added furniture, came out with a "Neckermann Radio-Super" that had the same features as competitors' models but sold for $45, v. $75. The radio started Neckermann's real troubles-and his real...
...hedge is advisable, for most Russian parents need persuasion. Despite the Communist edict that mothers stick to bearing and let the state do the rearing, Russians prefer more ancient practice-and so do their preachers. Khrushchev's own grandchildren are not in boarding schools, nor are those of his Kremlin colleagues. Most boarding-school children are enrolled because of special circumstances, e.g., overlarge families. Russians able to support their children do not easily surrender them, and the millions of Russians who still place God above Marx may never do so. By this year's end, Russia will have...
...beheld was a tiaraed bogeyman, whose heart appeared to mask Malice, Murder and Treachery. The caricature went undisputed. In the Protestant schools of the time, Roman Catholics were barred from teaching jobs. As Irish and German immigrants swelled the U.S. Catholic population, their bishops (in 1884) announced an urgent edict. Every parish priest must organize a parochial school; Catholic parents must send their children to such schools whenever possible...