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...Harper Woods, near Detroit, parents demanded an ordinance to prohibit a local drive-in from showing "objectionable" pictures. Reason: neighborhood children were watching the drive-in screen at night from their bedrooms-especially Jane Russell's often-banned French Line. The youngsters, claimed their fathers, were happy to scoot up to bed; moreover, they did not mind lack of sound from the film...
...Henceforth, they will be obliged to certify their actual construction and property costs at the project's end, and return any excess mortgage money. FHA also set out to try to recover some of the millions already pocketed. The charters of the apartment-building corporations formed under 608 prohibit unearned income (i.e., windfalls) from being handed out to shareholders, said Housing Boss Albert M. Cole. The firms that did so, declared Cole, were in default of their guarantee agreements ; therefore. FHA had the right to take control of them and sue for recovery...
...real test came on Gore's amendment to prohibit the Government from paying income taxes for private firms under contract to AEC. Again, Knowland, keeping on the pressure, disregarded the script and asked that debate be limited. Gore said he would not operate under such restrictions, and if Knowland insisted on being "bullheaded, then-well . . ." Knowland backtracked, Gore talked only 20 minutes and the amendment carried by a voice vote. Johnson's diplomacy was working...
...Prohibit changing the size of the Supreme Court...
Officials Prohibit Reply...