Word: protection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...necessary on newsstands? Most U.S. citizens are content to leave the problem to the courts. But many an outraged parent is not inclined to wait for the slow-grinding mills of the law to protect his children from cheap and easy smut. The result may be a well-intentioned pressure group that tries to boycott and bully all available reading matter down to a soap-opera level. Writing in the current issue of Harper's, Editor John Fischer thinks he has found just that in what he calls "a little band of Catholics . . . conducting a shocking attack...
...town New England editors and publishers to come down at the state's expense to learn "the truth about what segregation is, and why." For seven days the editors toured the state as guests of the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, set up by the legislature with $250,000 to protect the state's "way of life." The commission's pressagent, Hal DeCell, 32, promised "to show them whatever they want to see, because we have nothing to cover...
...wall. Then, to emphasize the airy, floating effect, he left space between the box structure and retaining wall, connected house to ground with gangways. The main supporting columns reinforce the theme by stopping just short of the ground, where the weight is transferred to iron rods (which also protect the wood from termites). Says Breuer: "Where there's structure, it is always nice to express...
...continued to slump even after the tariff rise, and "it is doubtful whether the present level of import duties will guarantee that watches will be produced at a level which defense authorities would consider adequate." In any case, he said, a high tariff is not the best way to protect the industry. In its place the U.S. should choose the lesser evil of paying government subsidies to makers, just as some airlines and shipowners are subsidized as a defense necessity. Thus watch prices would drop to the world-market level, and the cost of supporting a defense industry would...
...Knights Templar were organized in 1128 to protect pilgrims going to the Holy Land. With the end of the Crusades, the Templars became less a fighting order of knights than a collection of enormously wealthy bankers. By the use of informers, partisan judges and torture, King Philip and the Inquisition liquidated the order, took over its possessions. Under torture, many Templars admitted to the crimes of spitting on the Cross, denying Christ, sodomy, embezzlement, worshiping the Devil...