Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...events in Algeria . . . broke out and developed in my name without my being in any way involved in them. Things being what they are, I proposed to form by legal means a government that I think could rebuild unity, re-establish discipline in the state, particularly on the military side, and promote adoption of a renovated constitution by the country...
...scale architectural project with a claim to worldwide attention. The project of the 1950s and 1960s, previewed last week, is the $75 million, eleven-acre development for the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in Manhattan's West 60s. With about half the money pledged and most legal roadblocks cleared. Lincoln Center President John D. Rockefeller III took the wraps off plans for a whole complex of structures which he hopes will become "a new American landmark...
...virtually every state of the U.S. abortion is illegal unless performed to save the mother's life, and then the legal restrictions are so severe that many hospitals and gynecologists will have nothing to do with even legitimate cases. In 18 states the woman who seeks an abortion (other than the rare "therapeutic" kind) can be jailed for her part in the crime. Yet the latest findings* of the late Alfred C. Kinsey's Indiana University team of sex researchers-whose sampling is admittedly small and not entirely representative of U.S. womanhood-offer striking statistical clues...
VARIABLE ANNUITIES, with payments pegged to market value of stocks, need not be regulated by SEC, ruled U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington. Decision was major legal victory for variable annuities, especially Prudential Insurance Co., and setback for advocates of regulation, particularly the National Association of Securities Dealers. Opponents plan appeal to U.S. Supreme, Court...
...because they have higher costs than foreign lines. But few shippers are likely to pull out of the conferences right away. Four hours after the court handed down its decision. Maryland's Republican Senator John Marshall Butler introduced a bill in Congress to make the dual rates legal. Powerful shipping interests will push the bill hard, but it will probably not get a hearing in this session of Congress...