Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Archbishop Ngo Dinh Thuc. Though Catholics were allowed to fly Vatican flags at a church celebration honoring Archbishop Thuc, three days later the government forbade the Buddhists to unfurl their religious flags for the 2,507th birthday of Gautama Buddha. When the Buddhists staged a protest march against the edict, government armored cars fired over the heads of the rioters. In the melee, nine people were killed. The Buddhists blamed the slaughter on Diem's troops; the government blamed the killings on Communist agitators...
...scrip for choice Wisconsin timberland, which eventually soared in value. When sold off, it netted the university almost $6,000,000. White meantime scoured Europe for top scholars, set high standards, and took such a dim view of football that he once vetoed a game in Cleveland with the edict: "I refuse to let 40 of our boys travel 400 miles merely to agitate a bag of wind...
...James A. Carey, head of St. Michael's Roman Catholic high school in Jersey City, N.J., last week hit his 600 girls and boys with a jarring edict: Any student "dating one person to the exclusion of all others shall be expelled." Father Carey said that he is "horrified and utterly disgusted" at parents who permit steady dating: "Inasmuch as there is so much delinquency among parents, we at St. Michael's intend to act before our offended God brings down fire and brimstone...
...independent income, but complete lack of discrimination between the sexes in athletics seems to go too far. The Greeks, who were extremely wise in many respects, were quite rigid on this point. Any woman who even watched the Olympic Games was automatically executed. When the Romans reversed that edict, women apparently became great sports fans and were fond of spectacles such as gladiator fights and chariot races. The illusion of a tender sex has been completely shattered in modern times by the blossoming of female athletes in numerous sports. But up to this time, with the minor exceptions of mixed...
...case. What MacArthur didn't settle, and what both the AAU and the NCAA have refused to face, is a recent ruling by the International Olympic Committee declaring all athletes suported by athletic scholarships or state money ineligible. This will undoubtedly affect the Iron Curtain country teams, but the edict may be most damaging to the U.S. Most college athletes have athletic scholarships, and the ruling quite plainly eliminates armed services personnel...