Word: closed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recently Chuck Starkweather's world began to close in again. He was fired for laziness from a $7-a-day job on a garbage truck, locked out of his rented room until back rent was paid, forbidden to see chubby, 14-year-old Caril Fugate, to whom he had proposed at least three times. Last fortnight Starkweather decided to get even. Before he was stopped, he had shot, stabbed or clubbed ten people to death, and Lincoln (pop. 120,000) shivered through a two-day panic...
Monarchist Deputy Angelo Rubino warned that closing the brothels means "free prostitution, which means nothing less than free contagion." Cried one legislator: "We Italians are an exuberant people with deep sexual needs." (Snorted Senator Merlin scornfully: "Men are men.") But many Italians, aware that their nation is the last one in Europe where prostitution is legal, are glad to see it finished. Said one: "What has been going on here is that houses have been selling the bodies of women, and the government has been taking a percentage of the sale." One young Roman was more cynical. "Now that...
Honored. A wartime Navyman with a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University, handsome, whippet-trim '(5 ft. 10 in., 140 lbs.) Herb Hames, 35, helped close down Ottawa's wide-open gambling joints with stories that played up their owners' political connections. He flailed away at thimblerigging in La Salle County's tax assessments, flayed the city government for lax enforcement of liquor laws. Bucking opposition from tax-conscious merchants, Editor Hames also swung the paper behind such long-needed improvements as sewer and school construction. For three straight years after Editor Hames...
Southerly Swing. Unlike the Russian Sputniks, which sweep close to the Arctic and Antarctic Circles, the Explorer follows a sinuous orbit around the earth's middle, crossing the equator at an angle of about 34° and coming only as far north as Atlanta. At its highest point (apogee), the orbit rises to 1,700 miles above the earth, descending to about 200 miles (perigee). The round trip takes 114 minutes. This is a "safe" orbit, above nearly all the drag of the atmosphere, and higher than the orbits of the Russian satellites...
...look just as rough as Willie when they are going down the stretch in a scrap for a big purse, sit their mounts with something that could be called style. Even more in contrast are the sensitive, stylish operators of the genus Willie Shoemaker, who win even the close ones without seeming...