Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enforce their demands, the rebels revealed they had taken three important prisoners: Royalist Army Commander General Ouane Rathikoun, the commander of the Savannakhet military region in southern Laos, and Prince Sayavong, brother of King Savang Vatthana. Not only that, announced the radio, but unless the terms of the edict were met within an hour, the planes would come back with more bombs...
...while it looked as if Boeing's medium-haul, three-jet 727, in service since 1964, might be grounded by Government edict. During a five-month period beginning in August 1965, there were four fatal 727 crashes, all of them during the final landing approach. But last week, reporting on one of the four disasters-an American Airlines 727 crash in Cincinnati that took 58 lives-the Civil Aeronautics Board blamed the accident on pilot error and cleared the aircraft altogether. The 727, said the CAB, has "no design deficiencies or unsatisfactory operating characteristics...
Giving in, the government flashed a temporary red light to enforcement officers, ordering that the edict take effect only against a few disreputable houses that employed minors or peddled dope. It was small solace for the trade. Complained one prostitute last week: "Attendance has fallen off. Clients fear they may land in jail." A madam with initiative-and style-was busy sending out notes to erstwhile customers: "I have the pleasure of informing you that I expect you at my house on Tocornal Street after 6 p.m. Bring a friend...
...CLOTHES. Around 1000 B.C. the nomads of Central Asia found that their simple cloth or hide wraps were uncomfortable on horseback; so they invented trousers. Trousers were so closely associated with barbarians that when some Romans began sporting them an imperial edict was issued against their use. As late as 1814 the Duke of Wellington was refused admission to his club because he wore trousers. Cuffs on trousers first appeared in New York City near the end of the 19th century after an Englishman on his way to a fashionable wedding was caught in a downpour and turned...
...instinct for money-making innovations. Trippe was the first to order the 490-passenger Boeing 747 -some $525 million worth-for delivery starting in 1969. But even Trippe can have problems. The most notable: Pan Am flies the rest of the way around the world, but, by Government edict, its planes cannot take customers across the U.S. Pan Am has long argued that it should be permitted continental pickup rights. Last week a Civil Aeronautics Board examiner agreed, recommended that Pan Am be allowed to carry passengers between the East and West coasts on flights to and from Europe, with...