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...York City Board of Education has discovered a new definition of academic freedom-one which has enabled it to suspend 40-odd public school teachers this year after investigations which all sides have conceded to be scrupulously fair...
Scurrying to read the Constitution, Deputies found that a majority vote would suspend the President until the Senate could try him. Best guess was that Vargas' opponents lacked the votes. But they might yet give him a painful political clawing in an election year, employing a device so new to Brazil that orators and newspapers referring to it had to bypass Portuguese and use the English word "impeachment...
...President Magsaysay gave me the word: Bring Taruc down. For the first time, I had army clearance. Taruc set the rendezvous at Barrio Santa Maria, in the wilds of Pampanga Province, and the army agreed to suspend operations there between...
...that the Comet was put into commercial service prematurely, and questioned details of its design. Chief question: How safe is the British practice of embedding jet engines in the wing roots of multijet aircraft? Embedding improves the streamlining, but for safety's sake, U.S. jet builders prefer to suspend their engines in jet-pods hanging below the wings. Boeing 6-47 jet bombers have been landed safely after losing a disabled jet, but in the Comet's case, a fire or explosion in the engines would be likely to damage the wing. At the time of the Elba...
...feuds with other publications, in which some of Lampy's treasures have been borrowed temporarily. Though the Ibis is the most notorious example, other objects have served as well. Once, when the Lampoon's bound volumes of Punch disappeared, the President remarked that the organization would have to suspend publication for lack of material...