Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talk to Vice Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay, Contributing Editor Peter Bird Martin flew from New York to Buenos Aires, asked to fly home with LeMay aboard his record-setting KC-135 jet tanker. LeMay agreed to take him only if wind and temperature would permit his heavily loaded jet to leave Ezeiza Airport's short runway safely with Martin's extra weight (187 Ibs.) aboard. He ordered Martin to report back to the plane at 5:30 next morning. In a cool dawn, Martin discovered conditions were favorable, climbed aboard, was able to radio TIME...
...picture, a Colette story in which a teenaged boy is seduced by an older woman, was screened by a censorship board in Chicago more than two years ago and denied a permit because, the board claimed, the film was obscene. Lawyers for the U.S. distributor. Times Film Corp., set out to prove that 1) the picture is not obscene, and 2) the city's censorship ordinance is unconstitutional. They did not get far on either count. Chicago Police Commissioner Timothy J. O'Connor upheld his citizens' board, explained to a master in chancery that The Game...
Lebanese security forces refused to permit 17 members of the Syrian Parliament to cross the border into this tiny republic on the Mediterranean shoreline...
...years as a writer on FORTUNE and TIME, and during the last years of his life worked on the scenarios for such movies as The African Queen, The Quiet One, Face to Face (in which he also appeared in a bit part). With each of his few books-Permit Me Voyage (1934), a collection of poems published when Agee was scarcely out of college; Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), an angry Depression report on sharecroppers in the Deep South; The Morning Watch (TIME, April 23, 1951), his moving first novel-critics had been waiting the fulfillment of Agee...
Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said it was not possible at this time to expand on Eisenhower's statement last night at Oklahoma City about cutting down on nondefense spending to permit an increase on defense...