Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...centralization began early and drew the first critical fire. When, in January 1961, Kennedy edited a speech by the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Arleigh Burke, and directed all other military brass to submit to the same treatment, the press emitted loud cries of censorship. But though the Kennedy edict certainly frustrated loose talk from the Pentagon, its effect has not been altogether negative. The din of senselessness and longstanding interservice quarrels no longer reaches the public...
...academic fairway proved full of traps. The school's dean ruled that because the U.S. Open champ was committed to three weeks of golfing exhibitions during the fall term, he must cancel them or withdraw; his instructors felt that he "could not miss that much class time." The edict riled Nicklaus. an insurance major with average grades. "I don't like to be told I can't go to school," he said. "I've missed classes to play golf every quarter I've been at Ohio State, and I feel I could meet my commitments...
...both of Senator Barry Goldwater, who "typifies what this school stands for: individuality and self-responsibility." On Fuller's desk is Goldwater's The Conscience of a Conservative, from which Fuller fondly quotes: "We must recapture the lost art of learning." Fuller denounces John Dewey's edict that children can best be taught by getting them interested. He insists that children must be "led out of darkness" by a disciplined "Christian" approach to "reason," and all the students are either Roman Catholics or Protestants, about half from church-going families. Only two Jewish children have applied. Fuller...
...junta's "dance control" edict, under which couples were previously sent to jail if seen dancing in public, has been relaxed, and the government's payroll is back to its pre-coup size of 240,000; it is expected to rise by an additional 10,000 by the end of the year. In Seoul, police last week were herding prostitutes back into their old houses in order to maintain more effective watch over them. Under the new rules, the girls have to obey two regulations: they must deposit a portion of their earnings in savings accounts, and attend...
...government edict, red lights replaced the crosses. In the past two years, the electricity bill for Addis' red-light districts has risen as the number of cribs increased from 5,000 to 8,000. The boom is a significant symptom of change. Its cause: the influx of foreigners into the city for an endless series of conferences, all part of a determined attempt by His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, Conquering Lion of Judah, Elect of God, King of Kings, and Emperor of Ethiopia, to put his land in the vanguard of African nationalism...