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...their telegram to the governor, officials of the Political Union said they had decided to cancel the engagement because "it has been made clear to us that your presence here would severely impair the relationship between Yale and the New Haven Negro community...
...clash concerned Title II of the Administration bill, a proposal to guarantee equal access to privately owned public accommodations such as restaurants and hotels. Title II is by far the bill's most contested section. It is persuasively argued that, in the name of racial rights, it would impair the constitutional rights of private property...
...fortune stashed in European banks, flew off nonchalantly to Beirut. Forty-eight hours later, Saud got an even worse shock: one of his favorite wives, handsome Princess Im Mansour, vanished from the palace to join her lover, Ben Salem, in exile. The personal and political blows combined to impair the regal health once again. Moslem pilgrims to Mecca who were booked on half a dozen jet flights home suddenly found their passages had been canceled. Instead, the airliners flew to Riyadh, picked up the ailing King and his huge retinue, and carried them off to Vienna. At week...
...drawback. But medical officers in all the armed forces still have to fight against ignorance and superstition. It takes only one oddball muttering "Those pills will make you sterile, buddy," and rumor buzzes around the base. Great quantities of medicine get flushed down the toilets. Penicillin was whispered to impair potency. Recruits who were supposed to take it daily as a preventive against rheumatic fever often spat out the tablets after they had passed the issue line...
Resistance to each change in the structure of the medical profession has generally been defended by arguments that change would impair the quality of care and destroy the doctor-patient relationship. These arguments are weak...