Word: permit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Uruguayans traveled back and forth across the river each year. After Perón took power, Uruguay became a haven for Argentine exiles, and from the exiles issued a stream of manifestos and periodicals denouncing the strongman. In 1951 Perón & Co. retaliated by requiring a special police permit for travel to Uruguay. Traffic across the Plate dwindled almost to the zero point...
...Luis Batlle Berres (TIME, Dec. 13) as Uruguay's new Council President, both sides agreed to a midriver meeting between Batlle Berres and Argentina's Interior Minister (and acting Foreign Minister) Angel Gabriel Borlenghi. Last week, as a result of that meeting, Argentina abolished the police permit for travel across the Plate, and on both sides of the river ferryboats promptly took aboard crowds of passengers...
Masters Elliott Perkins '23 of Lowell, Leigh Headley of Leverett, and Reuben A. Brower of Adams all agreed that quieting dining halls to permit educational conversation is a prime need of the House system. Only Perkins made concrete proposals toward this end; however, his suggestions still require official approval and fund allocation...
...housing and foreign-aid policies will all come up for review-and each promises a fight. In the first hours of the Senate session, 166 measures were introduced, ranging from John Bricker's treaty amendment to a bill by Arizona's Republican Senator Barry Goldwater which would permit live scorpions to be sent through the mail for medical research...
...staunchly defended the right of desegregationists to say what they please. In Jackson (Miss.), a self-styled "Negro emancipator" named Arrington High attacked state officials so savagely in his mimeographed weekly Eagle Eye that he was arrested and fined three times on the charge of "distributing handbills without a permit." The press defended his right to print the weekly, and the county court overturned his last conviction, ruling: "No matter how great the provocation, governmental agencies cannot indulge in indignation . . .The situation [cannot] be helped by an unlawful arrest and conviction...