Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Justice Harold H. Burton, writing the Supreme Court majority opinion (joined by Felix Frankfurter, Tom Clark, William Brennan, Charles Evans Whittaker and John Marshall Harlan). Even assuming that the Taft-Hartley Act permits the NLRB to assess unions for back pay in certain cases, that, said Burton, would not prevent a plaintiff from seeking full damages in state courts. To hold otherwise, he wrote, would "grant to unions a substantial immunity" from the consequences of illegal mass picketing or coercion...
...Tebaldi this spring, hoped she would sing at a special performance this summer at the Brussels World's Fair. Last week her fans were still throwing radishes at Callas, and so were some critics. "[Maria Callas'] well-organized claque," said Milan's Il Giorno, "does not prevent her voice from damaging well-formed ears." The final blow came when Manager Ghiringhelli, who had avoided her for months, cut Callas dead backstage. Enraged, she took public revenge at her next performance of Il Pirata. Instead of pointing offstage to her lover mounting the gallows, Callas leveled a finger...
...Only Man. Like every other thoughtful Frenchman in Algeria. Soustelle is painfully aware that if rapid steps are not taken to fulfill the Moslems' newfound hopes for integration, the resulting bitterness is likely to be beyond appeasement. To Soustelle, the only man who can prevent this-the only man who can arbitrate between Metropolitan France and the Algiers insurgents-is Charles de Gaulle. On this conviction. Soustelle has at 46 staked his political future...
...appropriate anti-recession measure nor, hopefully, a permanent cushion for an over-produced economy. To raise the weapons budget in times of depression will constitute an excuse for axing it during a boom, and there is, of course, some hope that the arms race can be restricted sufficiently to prevent over-emphasis on defense spending...
...Nucleonics, Dr. Norman Earl Huston and Norman Carl Miller of North American Aviation, Inc. tell about quick-acting safety devices to prevent such calamities. They do not think much of gadgets that require a power source or an electrical "scram" signal to tell them the reactor is about to misbehave. Either power or signal might fail...