Word: stops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that it has not been in Belgium since World War II, gives no hint as to the identity of the seller. Several months ago (long after the fact) Belgian authorities heard rumor of a pending sale, called on the Merode family, which had owned it for two generations, to stop the transaction. When it was pointed out that the altarpiece had been willed to the daughter of Count Guillaume d'Henricourt de Grünne. King Baudouin himself intervened in an effort to keep the work in Belgium. What no one told the King was that Countess Jeanne...
MERGER-BUSTING POLICY will be pushed by FTC to stop what it considers to be growing concentration in some industries. As a start, FTC ordered Crown Zellerbach, No. 2 U.S. papermaker (after International Paper), to sell St. Helens Pulp & Paper Co., which it bought in 1953. This was first time FTC invoked amendment to Clayton Antitrust Act that forbids merger which may create monopoly in just a single line of commerce. (The "line" in this case is the coarse-paper market in eleven Western states.) Crown Zellerbach will appeal to courts...
...kill a cat. The grimalkin of racial prejudice may choke on warm milk as easily as succumb to a brickbat. Unfortunately the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination seems to believe it has, in the Fair Educational Practices Act, the only weapon which can banish the beast. In ordering Harvard to stop requesting photographs with freshman application forms, it serves the letter, but not the ultimate purpose, of the law it seeks to enforce...
...past, most Masters have indicated considerable reluctance to allow resident students to leave the Houses, so it appears likely that the view of yesterday's letter as a "stop-gap" measure is a prevalent...
...Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination has issued a directive under the Fair Educational Practices Act ordering Harvard College to stop requesting the photographs. The Office of Admissions has failed to comply with the directive, claiming that the pictures were not used for discrimination...