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...position apparently is that all discussion of new possibilities in nuclear technology is "irresponsible" and "scare" talk. From a nuclear scientist who must know that nuclear technology is in its infancy and that its possibilities are almost endless this statement is incomprehensible. He further maintains that nothing must "inhibit the government" in its endeavor to reach an agreement with the Soviet Union on the cessation of nuclear tests. He apparently shares the current obsession, prevalent in a sector of the scientific community and unfortunately communicated to the government, that a treaty to end nuclear tests is somehow inevitably the beginning...
Spartacus (Bryna Productions; Universal-International) is a new kind of Hollywood movie: a superspectacle with spiritual vitality and moral force. Quality, of course, is not permitted to inhibit quantity. Shot in a widescreen, full-color process known as Super-Technirama 70. Spartacus runs for 3 hr. 25 min., including a brief intermission, employs 100 major sets, 8,000 extras and far more big names than most marquees can carry-among them Kirk Douglas. Sir Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton. Peter...
Many girls pointed out, also, that bathrooms on the dormitory floors are public. As 'Cliffies complained, too, that the absence of men would inhibit their customary activity of walking the halls in . Others argued that regular would necesitate more frequent inspections, already a weekly discipline in most Radcliffe residences...
...Protestant attack on Smith after his nomination, opposition to him as a Catholic and opposition to him as a wet were inextricably entangled. People who were intensely hostile toward Catholicism were usually fervent drys. Since American traditions tended to inhibit direct assaults on religion, hostility to Smith's Catholicism was often expressed in denunciations of him as a servant of the Demon...
...using these U.S. and foreign moneylenders, Cohn neatly sidestepped Federal Reserve Board regulations that inhibit U.S. banks from lending money to finance stock purchases. The disclosure of Cohn's financial maneuvering came as a result of a special interpretation of a Securities and Exchange Commission rule that in the future would mean that a company's controlling stockholders must tell how they financed their holdings. Lionel's proxy statement also disclosed that Cohn had financed the purchase of 14,587 shares of Lionel stock for Paul M. Hughes and his wife. A year ago Hughes was named...