Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wisdom, head of the contested Eisenhower delegation to the Republican National Convention in 1952) ruled that the Louisiana statute violates the equal-protection clause of the 14th Amendment, issued a temporary injunction to prevent the state from enforcing the law. Plaintiff in the lawsuit: Joe Dorsey, New Orleans Negro light-heavyweight prizefighter. Biggest probable beneficiary: the Sugar Bowl, which for two years has had trouble getting top Northern football teams, most of which have Negro players...
...lion's share of a 25-75% split, will certainly affect the 50-50% deals that have been standard with British and most U.S. companies. Under Iran's $1.1 billion development program, made possible by oil revenues, regional schemes will supply irrigation, fertilizer, electric power and light industry. The ambitious Khuzistan project in southwestern Iran is under the able guidance of a U.S. firm headed by David E. Lilienthal and Gordon R. Clapp, who pioneered TVA. The development plans are good, but their allotted revenues have sometimes been borrowed for other purposes, and the Shah himself wishes that...
...Soviet campaign of sweetness and light changed abruptly to the hurtling of thunderbolts a month ago. The grounds: that Iran was negotiating a bilateral defense agreement with the U.S. Yet this agreement has been in the works for months. In Moscow, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko handed the Iranian ambassador a stiff note warning of the danger of Iran's being involved in the "military adventures" of foreign circles." Voroshilov's visit was abruptly canceled; Ambassador Pegov stopped flashing his gold-toothed smile and packed for the trip home. The Soviet radio, in Persian language broadcasts, cried that "American...
Protestant preachers in Italy have their work cut out for them. The Italian constitution of 1948 gives them the green light: "All persons have the right freely to profess their own religious faith in any individual or collective form, to proselytize on its behalf and to perform in private and in public acts of worship, provided that the rites are not contrary to public morals."* But mayors and police chiefs seem to prefer the earlier Fascist police laws of 1929 and 1930, under which non-Catholic places of worship must have permits from local authorities and non-Catholic pastors...
...Paris to learn the graces. Ever since, socialites have installed their daughters at Mrs. O'Mahony's small Queen's Gate town house, whose front hall contains a collection of white china swans "to remind the girls of what they are expected to become." Their guiding light: "That our daughters may be as cornerstones, polished after the similitude of a palace" (Psalms 144:12). For such polish, Mrs. O'Mahony's fee is an abrasive $1,325 a year. Hundreds apply, but only 30 are chosen-"daughters of leaders, men of noble birth, aristocrats...