Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Deep-Seated Feeling. Their presence is increasingly resented by the generally less skilled and often unemployed blacks, who see the fruits of uhuru (freedom from colonial rule) falling into the Asians' laps instead of into theirs. The blacks feel that Asians do not open their businesses to capable young Africans, and that they invest their money abroad or send it to relatives. In Kenya, the KANU party of President Kenyatta has scolded the Asians for living out their lives in "a communal cocoon, having only the most superficial contact with their fellow inhabitants." A barefooted Tanzanian farmer, cheering anti...
...case in the U.S. Appellate Court. Last week the Supreme Court refused to review it. Whether the Justices think the law constitutional or whether they did not want to tackle that issue now may never be known. By their refusal to act, however, they left standing a new rule that the First Amendment right to utter burning words does not protect the act of burning draft cards...
From little technicalities, great frustrations grow. Look at Bob Seagren, the handsome young (20) University of Southern California sophomore and pole vaulter extraordinary. As extraordinary, that is, as a technicality in the rules will permit him to be. Seagren does hold the world indoor record of 17 ft. 2 in. But he has equaled and beaten that mark in competition this winter-and neither of those leaps will ever be noted in the record book. Last month, Bob soared 17 ft. 2 in.; two weeks ago, he went 17 ft. 31 in. -clearing the crossbar with a good...
...jumper must push himself almost straight up at the moment of release. "It's no trouble nudging the pole back at lower height. But at 17 ft. you don't have any natural leverage." As Seagren sees it, there are only two solutions: 1) get the rule changed, or 2) get lucky...
...Olivetti & Co. sprang a surprise at last week's annual shareholders' meeting. First, in a country where fiscal secrecy is the rule, there were some proud announcements of sales and earnings. For the Italian mother company, profits rose from $7,000,000 in '65 to nearly $11 million in '66. Worldwide, Olivetti sales last year reached $508 million, up $62 million over '65. (Observers estimate that Olivetti's global profits were $16 million last year, up about 40%.) Next came the surprise: a change of top-level management in the wake of success...