Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Events swept to a climax in a single day. Ostensibly to bid goodbye on the eve of a four-week Italian vacation, Adenauer went to see outgoing President Theodor Heuss, 75, who has served the constitutional limit of two five-year terms. For two hours the two elders talked about the role of the presidency. That night at home, Adenauer talked heart to heart with his son Paul until midnight. Next morning he complained that he had hardly slept-but he had made his decision...
...Support. The high-flying trip was no flight of pilot's fancy. Last month Air Force headquarters in Europe proposed to the Joint Chiefs of Staff that the U.S. challenge Soviet claims to the right to limit flight altitudes in the corridors. The Chiefs weighed the idea, agreed that the U.S. ought to establish its right to fly the corridors at any altitude it deems necessary; in the event of another Berlin blockade, the Air Force will certainly use the huge C-130s for long-distance hauls, which would require higher altitudes than the short prop hauls made...
...Congress' right to impose a debt limit on the Puerto Rico government...
...suit this winter to be admitted to Georgia State College of Business Administration in Atlanta, Governor S. Ernest Vandiver asked the board of regents to freeze new enrollment in the state's university system. The legislature pitched in with a patently ad hoc law setting the top age limit for entering classes in the university system at 21 (all three Negroes are over 21). The result, predictably ridiculous: in the last quarter, the number of students signed up for classes at the University of Georgia's seven adult-education centers has dropped 40%, from...
...fishermen can blame themselves for part of the trouble. For years U.S. fleets fished with such predatory methods that the Government now permits no salmon fishing outside the three-mile limit, this year outlawed the use of fish traps at the mouth of spawning rivers. But the U.S. has no control over other nations, whose fleets catch the salmon before they ever get to Alaska waters...