Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State's business enterprises, Blue Laws are a disaster. Columbus Day store closings represented a loss of $22 million worth of business; the Veterans Day figures have not yet been calculated, but are sure to be equally astronomical...
Nowhere was that truer than in the U.S. itself, where Americans, far from being frightened or cowed, were fighting mad, "When a rattlesnake is loose in the house." said the Dallas News, "you get down your gun and go after it." Said Robert J. Holton, 55, a Columbus, Ohio, grocer: "We should start testing some of our own bombs just as close as we can to Russia, and let them have some of that fallout." "Among the people I've talked to," said University of California Professor Harry B. Keller, "there's a hardening of attitudes. Now that...
Goddammit, Write. Columbus, Ohio, was where the bed fell on father, and the ghost got in, where the dog that bit people did his dirty work. It was very nearly where Thurber stayed. He skipped graduation at Ohio State University to serve as a code clerk in Paris during World War I, but returned to cover city hall for the Columbus Dispatch. It was 1925 before Thurber's first wife, Althea, a beautiful girl who had twice been elected Campus Rosebud at State, persuaded him to go to Paris and write a novel, like everyone else...
...addition to Veterans' Day, other newly created "Sundays" in the Massachusetts year include New Year's Day, Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. On these days there can be no dancing (from midnight to midnight) and athletic events cannot start before 1 p.m. or end after 7 p.m. The only difference between these days and the "real" Sundays is that it is legal to serve alcoholic beverages on the eight holidays...
...last week-the monthly Catholic Digest has become the least ecclesiastical, and the most widely accepted, publication produced under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Church. Its paid circulation of 751,178 is surpassed among Catholic magazines only by Columbia (1,070,361), published largely for the Knights of Columbus, a fraternal order for Catholic laity. C.D. is printed in five languages and ten international editions (for Britain and Ireland, Belgium, The Netherlands, India, Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and the Philippines), and it is the only Catholic publication with a national newsstand sale (15,000 a month...