Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Egypt's right to "self-defense." For more than a month a ship fully loaded has sat in Haifa harbor ready for the testing. For 48 hours last week there was an onrush of international tension. The U.S. announced publicly that it still supported Israel's legal position in Suez, but it has privately counseled Israel to move gradually and to establish a pattern of shipping Israeli goods in foreign bottoms through the canal before sending a ship with an Israeli flag. In the end, Israel said that "sooner or later" its ship would go through, and passions...
...Britain. Another U.S. newspaper distributed in Britain was expected to agree not to run any stories on British criminal cases without first clearing the copy with Smith's. Other U.S. publications were more likely to accept in Britain, as they do at home, responsibility for the accuracy and legality of what they print and, in effect, provide a person to be sued in British courts. This, plus a promise to indemnify distributors against damages, could leave the distributors free to distribute foreign publications without the "screening" threatened by Smith's. It was not the ideal way to avoid...
...what amounted to a burlesque of classicism created such monumental figures as Mother and Child, which only superb talent saves from becoming ludicrous. In his Three Dancers he not only bade farewell to his period of stage designing with the Ballet Russe (where he met and married his one legal wife, Olga Koklova, mother of his eldest son Paul), but initiated a series of agonizing, lopsided, contorted figures whose displaced limbs and wandering eyes still boggle the public...
...final word: the publishers have seen fit to place on the front of the dust jacket part of Graves' own description of his book as follows: "A novel filled with sex, drink, dope, horse racing, incest, suicides, murders, scandalous legal proceedings, cross examinations, inquests and a good public hanging." None of these are described in the titillating detail which might be expected. The book, however, is a good study of a bad character, and another, though tiny, star in Mr. Graves' crown...
...Replacement of 9,500 other slum units with federal housing projects, rejuvenation of 15,000 more by a coordinated municipal program in which the city persuaded slum landlords to make repairs, took legal action when persuasion failed...