Word: provisionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the court was the case of William L. Greene, who lost his $18,000-a-year job as an aeronautical engineer and was reduced to working as a $4,700-a-year draftsman when the Navy revoked his security clearance in 1953. The Navy charged association with Communists and...
Last week, after a second look at the bill, Republican Clare E. Hoffman of Michigan complained that the alleged saving was a "deception." Camouflaged in the fine print of the bill was an unmentioned provision loosening up the rules on pensions for widows and orphans. Under present law, the needy...
The startling new problem of keeping far-out candidates like Homer out of newscasts arose because of the Federal Communications Commission's overly cautious interpretation of the Communications Act, which declares that any station that lets any legally qualified candidate use its air time must give equal opportunities to...
Going Through Money. But as the royal fortunes began to mend, King Saud, 57, began to go back to his spending ways and his authoritarian habits. The palace noted that Feisal's new budget made inadequate provision for paying off retainers (and creditors), began denouncing Feisal as a penny...
The companies were officially silent, privately frantic. "This isn't expropriation," cried one sugar executive. "It's confiscation!" Said another: "We're sort of sick here." Sugarmen talked hopefully about one provision in the law: the newly created National Agrarian Reform Institute can let foreigners own land...