Word: strictly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appointed Oppenheimer director at Los Alamos in 1943. Groves was cautious. Oppenheimer had done a "magnificent job" at Los Alamos, but "you must remember that he left my control shortly after the war was over." While Oppenheimer "did not always keep the faith with respect to the strict interpretation of the security rules," neither did other leading scientists...
...dismissal. But fourteen of the institutions, Mostly state universities, still refused to agree to the contracts, fearing government encroachment on academic freedom. The American Civil Liberties Union registered a particulary strong protest against the government's action, expressing concern "lost government control extend so far as to impose strict conformity on our national life...
...Negro stars. The Giants had Birmingham's own Willie Mays in center field when they played an exhibition game with the Cleveland Indians. Negroes and whites alike flocked to Rickwood Field (where they sat in segregated bleachers). But die-hard white supremacists circulated petitions demanding a return to strict segregation on the playing field. Mixed baseball, they argued, would lead to "mongrelization." When the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public schools (TIME, May 24), Birmingham residents wanted to be contrary. Last week Birmingham's citizens voted overwhelmingly to restore segregation to sports...
That night the men of the Gouws family fashioned a rough coffin, and Mistress Katrina van Schalkwyk supplied a winding sheet. Joseph's body was delivered to his grandmother with strict instructions: "You must bury him without opening the coffin, because he died of a contagious disease." But Joseph's father, Abraham, raised the coffin...
...effect than a cause. The real trouble is that automakers are producing more cars than dealers can sell. Even dealers in areas where bootlegging is unknown are having trouble clearing their showroom floors. Detroit, which has little bootlegging, has lost 30 dealers in the last year. Illinois, with strict laws against bootlegging, lost 125 in 1953. In Washington recently, 70 have gone under; in Oklahoma, 150; in Kansas, 78; on New York's suburban Long Island, 20. Many others are operating in the red, and overall first-quarter profits are down to a bare .8%, v. 4.3% last year...