Word: presentments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Authorize the Federal Government to "require as a condition of employment" that federal employees "shall not refuse" to answer questions about past or present Communist ties, thus overturning the effect of the Cole v. Young case (TIME, June 25, 1956), which limited federal loyalty inquiries only to employees holding "sensitive" jobs...
...Ricordi's European copyrights on the works of Verdi will expire, to be followed before too long by the works of Puccini.*The firm may then become largely a record company (present U.S. distributors: RCA Victor, Mercury and Westminster). Artists-and-repertory chief of its burgeoning record division: Carlo Emanuele ("Nanni") Ricordi, 26, great-great-great grandson of Giovanni...
Radioactivity has been found before on Air Force jets, the Atomic Energy Commission admitted, but this was the first time that a commercial jet had been involved. The amount of contamination was not considered large enough to present any threats to passengers, but might endanger mechanics who were exposed to it for long periods while servicing the plane. Though the Public Health Service had not yet decided what precautions should be taken, Pan Am washed down the rest of its jets, may institute a system of spot checking jet flights for any trace of radioactivity...
...Present state Zoning Enabling statutes forbid city ordinances that "prohibit or limit" use of property for non-profit schools and colleges and religious institutions. The effect of the proposed Senate bill 236 would be to deny this exemption to certain kinds of institutions, including colleges...
Judges in the contest were Attilio Poto, conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and Randall Thompson '20, Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music. The orchestra will play "Variations on a Melody" at its annual spring concert in Sanders Theatre. On the same program it will present the winner in its concerto contest...