Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stephen Salant Jr., 25, Manhattan commodity broker; in a tense ceremony at which the bride's parents tried to smile away the fact that Mom was just in from Reno, where she'd gone to sue Dad for divorce, and Dad had just gone to court to prevent Mom from taking three other daughters out of the state; in Southampton...
...past record, Erhard might well be able to smooth things over and prevent a serious government crisis. But the Social Democrats have invited the generals to testify this week before the Bundestag's defense committee. After that, they will push for a full debate when the Bundestag reconvenes...
...necessary opening between them and stapling them together, in a 5-minute procedure that usually requires 20 minutes or more of scalpel work and stitching. One experimenter with the staplers, Dr. Mark Ravitch of the University of Chicago School of Medicine, has worked out a new way to prevent emboli (traveling blood clots) from passing into the lungs through the vena cava, the body's largest vein. He simply has the staples turned at right angles to form a filter which can be implanted in the vein swiftly and easily. Used in this manner, the new machines have already...
While the sideshow went on in Detroit, General Electric and Westinghouse negotiators sat down with unions representing 180,000 electrical workers for what promises to be the main labor event in 1966. For weeks, G.E. has been fighting to prevent a coalition of eight unions, led by the International Union of Electrical Workers, into a single bargaining agent. Under present law, such a labor gang-up would seem to be patently illegal. But federal courts have ordered both G.E. and Westinghouse to talk to the unions as a group while the National Labor Relations Board frets over the problem...
...controversy began even before the hearing. The American Civil Liberties Union, which supplied a half-dozen lawyers to represent twelve hostile witnesses, brought suit in Federal Court to prevent the questioning of witnesses on constitutional grounds. The A.C.L.U. charged, even before the hearing opened, that it would exert "an immediate and irreparable chilling effect" on the witnesses' rights under the First Amendment. A longtime challenger of the committee, the A.C.L.U. did not really have much hope of stopping the hearing. But, to nearly everyone's astonishment, District Court Judge Howard Corcoran granted a temporary restraining order to allow...