Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little respect for each child as an individual. Instead of watching a quiet child who wants, or even needs, to be alone, there is pressure on the child to participate. We criticize an introvert child for not being outgoing enough ... Of course, to an extent there must be a limit to dreaming, but would anyone pull out a flower to see if it grows right...
...libber Steve Allen, 32, met his match and more when septuagenarian Poet-Biographer Carl Sandburg dropped in for a scheduled 15-minute interview on Allen's midnight show. Looking as mild and mischievous as Grandma Moses in a barroom, the weathered old buckeye bard casually ignored the time limit on his stint, brushed aside his M.C.'s good-nights and thank-yous, stayed on happily ad-libbing, reading, reciting and singing for the full hour that remained of the show. Asked by the harassed Allen if he would mind the interruption of a popular tune by Pianist Marian...
...Faced with hundreds more applicants than they have room for while still forced to take all qualified comers, California's ten state colleges tackled a ticklish question: Would it be undemocratic to limit enrollments by upping entrance requirements? Last week the state board of education said go ahead. For the present, the colleges need take in only A and B high-school students...
Autocratic old Syngman Rhee wants to be President of South Korea for the rest of his life, even though it is unconstitutional. His solution: change the constitution. Last year he proposed amending the constitution so that the two-term limit would not apply to "the first President of the Republic"-himself. To pass the amendment, he needed more than a two-thirds majority, or better than 135 votes out of the 203-man Assembly. But he had only 100 votes. His leaders set to work cultivating opposition Assemblymen with so many favors, Bank of Korea loans and automobiles, that...
...charged that through Du Pont's ownership of 23% of General Motors stock, the company pressured G.M. to buy Du Pont products. Wrote La Buy: "No agreement was made . . . which bound [G.M.] to buy any portion of its requirements from Du Pont . . . [Du Pont] did not limit General Motors' purchasing freedom...