Word: offi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...missed targets that were there. The best Navy brains were baffled. So an offi cer was dispatched to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on the shoul der of Cape...
...beds. Neate's architect indicated a space for "shrubs." Back to Neate came the plan with a question: What kind of plants did Neate intend planting? Back to the committee went Neate's reply: he was planning to plant Urtica dioica, Calystegia sepium, Rnmex obtusijolius and Taraxacum offi-cinale-but was willing to amend the list in any way the Planning Committee desired. Mollified, the county council stamped his application "approved." Apparently none of the committee bureaucrats realized that what Neate proposed to plant was stinging nettles, bindweed, dock and dandelion...
...London, Britain's Lord Chamberlain Roger Lumley, Earl of Scarbrough, offi cial censor of public stage plays, slapped a ban on Playwright Miller's latest one-acter, A View from the Bridge. "The play has a theme of incestuous love," ex plained Miller ruefully. "That got by all right, but the censor objected to a scene" in which two men embrace one another." ¶ Wife Marilyn was getting mixed no tices. From her old (69) acquaintance, Poetess Dame Edith Sitwell, with whom La Monroe sipped gin and grapefruit juice, came a highbrow huzza: "She's quite remarkable...
...racist laws, the country's 12½ million citizens are being inscribed as white, colored (mixed blood) or native in a vast racial register known as the Book of Life. The government's eventual goal is to shuffle them into separate communities. Last month, as offi cials began enforcement of a 1950 law forbidding members of one race to move into quarters formerly occupied by another race, the first of what may be thousands of little neighborhood tragedies unfolded in a Johannesburg court...
When the history of the Eisenhower administration is finally written, if there is such a thing as a medal for "distinguished political disservice," it might be awarded to the members of the White House staff and the Administration offi cials who thought up the bright idea of a public fight with McCarthy by means of the Cohn-Schine trivialities...