Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...house in Miami when he heard the news over the radio. "I pulled over to the curb and stopped the car and I couldn't help it-I started to cry," he said. "I would have cried longer, but I was in a no-parking zone...
...history will so record them. West Germany took last week and France will take this week the crucial steps to declare themselves part of a Common Market that will enable these divided lands for the first time in modern history to have a vast, tariff-free trading zone comparable to the U.S., embracing six nations and 160 million people. At the same time (see below), the most powerful of Western European nations, West Germany, voted, to outlaw the return of cartels in favor of free enterprise and competition. It did so largely at the insistence of one man-Minister...
Yale's Economist Edgar Furniss, 67, for 20 years holder of the delicate and demanding position of provost of the university. A sort of buffer zone between the faculty and the corporation, Furniss' office in the Hall of Graduate Studies was the bright hope for any professor with a new idea, a sympathetic court of appeals for any with a problem. No major change has taken place at Yale without first getting the provost's consent, and probably no university official has been so open to new projects. Once a professor suggested that the university publish...
...some other aspects of the U.S. plan. The British would like to see the cutoff date put off until they can build up their stockpile of bombs. Some NATO countries-France, Belgium, The Netherlands and West Germany-are none too happy over being included in the trial aerial-inspection zone. At week's end Stassen flew over to Paris to confer with NATO's council...
...paratroopers dropped from the hatch of the high-tailed C-123 troop carrier. Their static lines, the 15-ft.-long "ripcords" attached to the plane, automatically plucked open the parachutes, set them free to drift, like whitish blossoms, over "Drop Zone Salerno" at Fort Bragg, N.C. "All troops away," sang the crew engineer into the intercom, and then he began routinely pulling in the static lines, which were wind-plastered against the fuselage. Suddenly he realized that one was stuck fast, looked down and under the plane to see a sprawling jumper being dragged through space, belly up, eight feet...