Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Passed (78-0) a $3.6 billion Agricultural Department appropriation, which restored the $500 million soil-bank program slashed out by the House at the height of its economy mood. The bill goes to a Senate-House conference where the Senate version is expected to prevail...
...yellow canvas ball rose jerkily up a pole on Cape Canaveral, Fla. one morning last week, a warning to fishermen to stay clear. At the Air Force Missile Test Center the long-awaited Big Shoot was on. A test version of the 100-ft. Atlas, prime Air Force intercontinental ballistic missile, designed for speeds up to 16,000 m.p.h. and 5,500-mile range, lay on its launching pad, set for its first limited flight...
...vote of 6 to 1 one day last November, the school board in suburban New Hyde Park, L.I. (pop. 10.500) passed what seemed to be a most innocuous proposal: to post in the classrooms of its elementary schools a version of the Ten Commandments. The version was to be the same as that used in nearby Huntington since 1954. It was so worded as to offend no particular faith, did not involve any religious instruction. But no sooner had the decision been made than the area was in an uproar...
Backed by the American Jewish Congress and the New York Board of Rabbis, some citizens denounced the whole idea as a violation of the separation of church and state. Others maintained that the interdenominational version was really a "new religion" and hence offensive to all faiths. One lawyer argued that the proposal was a plot to 1) introduce religion into the public schools, 2) equate them with parochial schools, 3) thus open the door to public support for private schools. Finally the case reached the office of New York's State Commissioner of Education James E. Allen...
Playhouse 90's version of Clifford Odets' "trio play," Clash by Night, was mostly a triumph of mien over message. When he wrote the play (a Broadway flop in 1942), Odets said he was trying to show "how men irresponsibly wait for the voice and strong arm of Authority to bring them to life and to shape ... So can come Fascism to a whole race of people." But TV Adapter William F. Durkee Jr. chose to tread the simpler level of the story-the interplay between a clod husband, a deceitful lodger, and a restive wife who dreams...