Word: permitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Haven's Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo & Assocs. has designed the buoyant $10,000,000 National Aquarium to be transparently clear and open. Located at Haines Point, in spacious Potomac Park, it is to be crowned by a 114-ft.-high greenhouse, shaped like a streamlined horseshoe, which will permit scientists from the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife to construct complete ecologies, or natural environments, within it. Reconstructed portions of the Florida Everglades, coral reefs and East and West Coast tidal pools will display not only fish but also insects and even birds in native common habitats...
Back from the Brink. To head off the suit, which is still pending in the courts, Arizona Senator Carl Hayden and 14 other Senators co-sponsored the Failing Newspaper Act. All the sponsors come from states in which there are newspapers with similar joint operating arrangements. The bill would permit such setups as long as one of the consolidating papers "appears unlikely to remain or become a financially sound publication"; the bill also permits outright merger in the same circumstances...
Both meetings were purposely kept informal to permit spontaneity of expression. Hence many of the participants gave a vivid portrayal of life in the Negro ghetto. Many of the complaints heard at the Roxbury-North Dorchester meeting were reiterated at the South End meeting. Feelings of alienation, bitterness, discouragement, and hopelessness were evident in the statements of almost every person. The ghetto residents told the Committee of their constant struggle against the damaging effects of both poverty and prejudice...
...support efforts to obtain a quinquennial census and we recommend that such a census obtain adequate information to permit study of the vital rates of minority groups...
Existing gambling laws are a mass of contradictions. While banning most forms of gambling 29 states permit horse racing-but not off-track betting. Some states forbid betting on flat racing, which is presumably wicked, but allow betting on harness races-which are presumably a wholesome, rustic diversion. The California legislature puts on its best poker face and allows betting in draw-poker parlors because it is a "game of skill." In Virginia, the statutes spell out that b-i-n-g-o is forbidden. So the churches and fire stations spell it beano, or bungo, or lotto...