Word: rule
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Call for the Cop. Most programs to ease the glut try to treat aviation within the existing rule of individual right to the air. A few experts take a more radical tack. They would create a federal aviation traffic cop to assign not only flight routes but also schedules and air speeds, thus spreading the jarm out of rush hours. Instead of informing the FAA of his flight plan and being accommodated no matter what the crush, every civilian pilot would have to notify a controller of his intentions and ask: "When...
...Liberal Party, which controls 81 of Parliament's 184 seats, and the Country Party, which holds 28 seats. Lacking Menzies' charisma, Holt often had to resort to face-losing compromises that made him look weak. Still, that was better, he felt, than the Menzies-style one-man rule. Holt believed in a "leadership that can lead but at the same time be close enough to the team to be part of it and be on the basis of friendly cooperation...
...Secretary of State Dean Acheson appealed to the editors of the Washington Post to halt their badgering of the ex-colonels about stepping aside in favor of an early return to "constitutional democracy." Wrote Acheson: "Greeks both ancient and modern have had grave trouble when they experimented with nonauthoritarian rule. Certainly no friend of Greece would wish to see her return to the 'constitution government' of two Pa-pandreous, the old fool and the young rascal...
Last week, by an overwhelming vote of 295 to 5, officials of the British Lawn Tennis Association decided to delete two little words - amateur and professional - from their rule book. Next year, all the game's men and women will be merely "players." So pros, for the first time, will be eligible to compete in the All-England championships at Wimble don, the oldest (91 years) and most prestigious tournament in the world...
...Catholic theologians are willing to challenge almost every other established doctrine or discipline, no one has yet challenged the principle that private confessions should be secret. Under church law, a priest may be automatically excommunicated if he divulges any information told him by a penitent -and deviations from the rule are al most nonexistent. Protestant ministers are equally circumspect regarding personal matters discussed with parishioners. The privilege of the confessional is acknowledged by courts in most West ern countries. In West Germany, for example, both Catholic and Protestant clerics - as well as psychiatrists dealing with mental patients - are exempt from...