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Word: lawfulness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Law and Order: "Man has been given his freedom to a greater extent than ever, and that's quite wrong. Adults like to be led. They would rather respond to a form of discipline. People say they want freedom; yet they tie themselves up completely with drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Warbler of Watergate | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...bill will probably be passed by the Senate, despite the bitter opposition of Senate President (and former Premier) Amintore Fanfani. Even then, the anti-divorce forces have one last stratagem. They will press for a referendum next year to give the Italian people a chance to repeal the law. Said L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican daily: "Divorce may have a parliamentary majority, but it is not approved by a majority of Italians." That remains to be seen. At any rate, if the bill is enacted and remains in effect even for only a very brief time before a referendum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Closer to Divorce | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

Four months after the murder of Kenya's brilliant young Economic Planning Minister Tom Mboya, prison officials in Nairobi announced tersely last week that Nahashon Isaac Njenga Njoroge, the Kikuyu tribesman convicted of the shooting, had been hanged secretly "in accordance with the law." The officials refused to disclose the date or details of the execution, but it was reported in Nairobi that Njoroge had died at 3 a.m. on Nov. 8. According to these reports, he went to his death without explaining what he had meant when he asked police after his arrest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya: Unanswered Questions | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

Baron knows that most manufacturers will not produce such equipment unless assured of a large market. Nor will users buy it unless compelled to by law. He therefore devotes his time to publicizing the dangers of noise, hoping to push legislators into enacting effective new noise-abatement regulations. Until such laws are passed and enforced, however, all Baron can offer his fellow sufferers is silent sympathy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Crusader for Quiet | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

This idea struck Harry Roseberg, a California tinkerer who was scratching out a living as a salesman, as he watched a pharmacist count pills one day in 1962. For a start, Roseberg borrowed $40 from a brother-in-law, Irving Zeiger, and began buying materials to create a pill counter. Eventually he came up with a device that consists of a plastic turntable and a counterrotating gearlike disk. Pills are dumped on the turntable, forced into line by the disk, automatically spaced out for counting by a tiny photoelectric cell, and dropped into a pillbox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inventions: To Build a Better Pill Counter | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

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