Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the settlers' government of Southern Rhodesia introduced a bill in the legislative assembly that would not only grant the police sweeping power to arrest African nationalists, but would declare those arrested guilty until proved innocent, in most cases by summary courts...
...bill authorized Alessandri to grant a once-and-for-all nationwide wage adjustment, reorganize the tax system, fire civil servants, establish a new monetary system, modify the nation's banking. He will also be empowered to reorganize public utilities, consolidate government or semi-government agencies, control monopolies and practices that restrict free trade. The powers are drastic, but so is the squeeze on Chile's economy. The 1959 budget of $465,600,000 is unbalanced by $242,500,000; industrial output has sagged 10% in the past three years; food production falls far short of keeping up with...
...Pope can be counted on to bless anything, from a new U.S. helicopter (the first aircraft ever to land in the Vatican) to a crowd of bicycle racers departing for Sardinia. In his Latin blessing of the "helicopterum," he asked God to "grant that in the same way it rises into ethereal spaces, our minds be elevated toward celestial things and be united by ties of charity." And he advised the cyclists: "When you get to Cagliari, tell the Madonna of Bonaria that the Pope sent you, and she will bless Italy, you and your families...
...Florida, Lemmon's bewigged and beaded feminine charms catch the eye of a much-married millionaire (Joe E. Brown). Curtis meanwhile finds time to forsake female impersonation long enough to quick-change into yachting cap and blazer, and woo Marilyn with a fairly good impersonation of Cary Grant. At the end, boy wins girl, and old boy is still hotly pursuing his falsied Lemmon...
Markman and Miss Grant are in Cambridge for discussions with the Independent Service for Information on the Vienna Festival. Miss Gloria Steinem, director of the Service, reported yesterday, "the USFC leaders came here to ask us for support. We refused to give any support, because we do not want to affiliate ourselves with any organization...