Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dramatized the consequences of evading justice through the Fifth Amendment when she was arrested in California as a key accomplice of two U.S. Communist fugitives (TIME, Sept. 7). This was the last straw for Attorney General Brownell. He set his Department of Justice lawyers looking for a way to limit the abuse of the 14 magic words without damaging the solid legal right behind them. Last week Brownell announced the results of their study: a proposal to compel the testimony of witnesses by giving them immunity from federal prosecution...
...burglar business. Developed by Samuel Bagno and manufactured by the Alertronic Corp. of Long Island City, the Alertronic alarm has one or more "loudspeakers" that generate sound waves with a frequency of 19,000 cycles a sec. This is too high-pitched for normal human ears, whose upper limit is about 18,000 cycles a sec., so the office or bank protected by Alertronic seems silent to a burglar, although every cubic inch of its air is in rapid vibration...
...Limit on Number...
Though there is no fixed limit to the number of organizations which can be included on the Council list, a practical consideration has in the past set a maximum of ten to 15 groups. This year, five charities were approved by the Council. These five are Phillips Brooks House, American Friends Service Committee, World University Scholarships, and the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students...
...encroachment to give a long-neglected school a million dollars on the condition that live neglected be raised from outside sources. It would, however, be encroachment to support a Divinity School that cannot raise the outside money it needs to support itself, or to extend the time limit of the School's fund drive indefinitely...