Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crocker last year lost his permit to show films at the Museum of Modern Art because he had not used his profits for "educational purposes." The Museum requires this of all its exhibitors...
...chairman of the Democratic National Committee: Stephen Mitchell, a little-known Chicago lawyer who had been, like Stevenson and Wyatt, a Washington operator (a Washington name for smart young lawyers in Government bureaus). Stevenson held several press conferences, some of them on a not-for-attribution basis, to permit reporters to become acquainted with his current views. Some of them: he hadn't the "faintest idea" whether or not he would drop Dean Acheson as Secretary of State; he foresaw the day when East-West power will come into some kind of balance and it may become possible...
...Pakistan 28.5% of the inhabitants are Hindus. Since 1950, when fanatical Moslem mobs ran amok killing Hindus and destroying their property, the Hindu minority in East Pakistan has lived in fear. After the 1950 riots, India and Pakistan agreed to protect each other's minority groups and to permit unlimited free travel between East Bengal (East Pakistan) and West Bengal (India). Under cover of this agreement, trade (and smuggling) between the two countries flourished to such an extent that some Hindus unwisely began to speak of a reunited Bengal. That was when Pakistan decided to restrict free travel; India...
Ordinarily, no climbers would be eager to tackle Everest in the shortening, ever colder days of autumn. But the Swiss have no choice: Nepal's government will honor their entry permit only until year's end. Moreover Nepal, under pressure from the spy-conscious Chinese Reds, has announced that it will give passage to only one more group of climbers, a British party now planning an assault on Everest late next spring, the traditional season for climbing...
...Association, ever ordered by a U.S. line. Pan Am, which expects to get the planes in 1956, also has an option to purchase seven more for delivery in 1957. As a warning to U.S. planemakers, Pan Am's President Juan Trippe added: the deal with De Havilland would "permit the acquisition of a fleet . . . [for] principal trade routes abroad if suitable American-manufactured jet transports were not available by that time...