Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Theatrical companies took one look at that majestic edict and began revamping their repertories. The Epidaurus Festival of Ancient Tragedy discovered that it had no room on the schedule for Euripides' The Suppliants, a story of a free city-state triumphing over tyranny...
...Giles not only lived with that edict but, by putting the plane on BOAC's well-promoted transatlantic service, he helped turn the craft into one of the company's biggest moneymakers. The feat only emboldened buy-British forces, who got added ammunition from the crash of a BOAC-owned 707 on Mount Fuji last March; moreover, that disaster led to the discovery of hairline tail fissures that briefly grounded a number of the company's 21 other 707s. The fact that BOAC has placed new orders for four Boeing 707 freighters and six Boeing 747s...
...last week to try to re-establish some measure of stability. Out of Peking's white-tiled Municipal Party Headquarters trudged hundreds of Red Guards, bearing their bedrolls and belongings. Only recently the chosen shock troops of Mao's purge, the youngsters had been evicted by government edict from their erstwhile headquarters and dormitory. They chucked their possessions into waiting army trucks and were driven out of the city and presumably back to school or work on the farms...
...Federal Court of Appeals' ruling last week that Massachusetts' congressional districts are malapportioned is an unusually strict, but justified, application of the Supreme Court's "one man, one vote" edict. The population difference between the State's largest and smallest congressional districts is 102,626 people, an imbalance which many apportionment experts do not consider extreme. The Federal Court, however, noted that when the General Court re-apportioned the state in 1962 it rejected two other apportionment plans which would have kept the maximum difference of population beteen any two districts to 50,000 people. Last Wednesday's decision, with...
...army would be a loose assemblage of carping individualists, all obeying' only their own inner dictates. One would not expect such reasoning from Charles de Gaulle, supreme authority figure of modern French history. Yet the Old Soldier has now issued an edict that requires every soldier to reason why before he blindly follows orders that "constitute crimes and infractions against the state's security, the constitution or public order...