Word: strictness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...states that all foreign-language posters and signs must include-in bigger type-a Spanish translation. Offenders are subject to a fine of $2.50 a day per sign. To businessmen who have festooned Panama with such slogans as Royal Crown Cola's "Best by Taste-Test," strict enforcement could be a headache. But most Panamanians seemed unimpressed. Snorted a reporter for one of Panama's newspapers (over which the commission has no control): "We common people will still ask for sanwiches, not emparedados, when we go to lonch...
...Regulars. Most test pilots stay only a short time at Muroc, coming & going with their "projects," i.e., the aircraft on which they are making tests. Colonel Boyd, a strict but much-beloved "Old Man," is there a great deal. His pilots testify that "he does everything we do" and he is one of the six Air Force men who have flown faster than sound in the X-1.* ("The Old Man did fine," says Chuck.) In 1947, Test Pilot Boyd also set a new world's speed record (623.8 m.p.h.) over Muroc Lake in a specially built...
...harder to argue. It is true that U.S. aid will unquestionably keep Spain safely anti-Communist. But the threat of Communism in Spain is pretty weak. For Spain remains, despite the blurbs of Franco, Farley, and "Life" magazine, a complete military dictatorship. Whether this dictatorship is more or less strict than it was ten years ago is not the issue. Franco's army of 400,000 men keeps "order," and the General is supported by a single recognized political party. Serious opposition is promptly and inevitably imprisoned or liquidated. All of which adds up to Fascism...
...Another question is also asked. Is time on our side? This is not a question that can be answered except within strict limits. We have certainly not an unlimited period of time before a settlement should be achieved. The utmost vigilance should be practiced, but I do not think myself that violent or precipitate action should be taken now. War is not inevitable. The Germans have a wise saying, 'The trees do not grow up to the sky.' Often something happens to turn or mitigate the course of events...
...whacking success in the high-altitude wake of an earlier book, The Seven Storey Mountain (TIME, Oct. 11), by the same young Trappist monk. Both books are the work of 34-year-old Thomas Merton, who has retired from the world to live under a monastic rule so strict that it forbids even the self-indulgence of talking. Trendspotters have begun to wonder whether some of the U.S. reading public, in its search for peace, subconsciously wishes it could follow...