Word: strictly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West effort. Yuri Gagarin, also speaking at the U.N., has since expressed his government's willingness to join in a co-operative venture. To thwart this move the House has passed an amendment to the space appropriations bill forbidding all space expenditures should the moon program pass out of strict U.S. control. Fortunately this measure, which took the Administration by surprise, is not likely to pass or even reach the Senate...
Ostensibly, Valachi testified to convince the Senate of the need for stronger laws against organized crime. He appeared before the committee as Attorney General Robert Kennedy's chief witness for two proposals, allowing a relaxation of strict wiretapping regulations and giving him the authority to grant immunity to informers. Both of these measures have been scarcely mentioned, and many Senators concede that Valachi has provided few substantive arguments for their approval...
...least two cities have declared open war on pigeons and are winning. Cincinnati, where eleven city workers became ill, and one died, after cleaning out pigeon droppings from an abandoned water tower, has started strict enforcement of an anti-feeding ordinance. Fines up to $50 for violators have made the pigeon rara avis there. Authorities in Buffalo are also making a fight to the finish. They employ five fulltime exterminators, who trap pigeons wherever they can and unobtrusively kill them by wringing their necks. The exterminators are also crack marksmen and shoot pigeons downtown in the early morning...
...suggests, should be their model instead. Both Swedish workers and employers have voluntarily formed central organizations for collective bargaining. These groups consider the national interest when they make price and wage agreements, and they have prevented the costly strikes that harass the U.S. economy. The Swedish government follows a strict hands-off policy: it has not even had to set a minimum wage. But Myrdal admits that the voluntarism that works for small Sweden, with a population less than New York City's, may not work for the sprawling...
...Studentbond also subscribes to the government's doctrine of Christian National Education. This doctrine, stressing fierce Afrikaaner ethnocentrism and strict Calvinism, has increasingly transformed schools into centers of indoctrination. The doctrine has wryly been called neither Christian nor national nor education...