Word: consents
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...anyone seemed a sure bet to represent the U.S. in swimming at the Olympics in Rome, a sad-faced Kansan named Jeff Farrell, 23, was the man. The greatest U.S. sprinter by consent and by competition, Farrell last month won the National A.A.U. championship by thrashing through the 100-meter freestyle in 54.8 sec., fastest time ever for an American. He looked a cinch to take the 100 meters, and to win a place on the 800-meter relay squad as well, at last week's Olympic trials in Detroit. But six days before the trials, Farrell underwent...
Four months after the Federal Trade Commission accused him of boosting his $45 million-a-year business by deception and coercion (TIME, April 11), Dancer Arthur Murray cha-chaed his way out of the jam, hardly stubbing his toes. He agreed last week to an FTC consent order "to cease and desist" the practices, thus avoided a tough day in court and the prospect of even more damaging publicity. In exchange, the FTC closed its case...
...consent order, which is not technically an admission of guilt, forces the Arthur Murray studios to abandon most of their now famous promotional schemes. These included telephone calls asking prospects to name two former U.S. presidents who were once generals, "Lucky Buck" contests soliciting dollar bills whose serial numbers included a five and a zero, and zodiac-and crossword-puzzle contests. All offered free dance lessons as a reward for the right answers, but the FTC charged that the contests were too easy to be genuine, were used as bait with which high-pressure Murray salesmen conned prospects into signing...
...year ago, the white poll watchers panicked and turned away every one of the handful of Negroes who tried to vote. The Negroes went home, formed the Fayette County Civic and Welfare League, and filed a suit in the federal district court at Memphis. Last April they won a consent decree that outlawed Fayette County's all-white primary, and the number of registered Negro voters rose to 500 v. 5,000 whites. But the whites had another weapon...
FICTION 1. The Leopard, Di Lampedusa (2)* 2. Advise and Consent, Drury (3) 3. Hawaii, Michener (1) 4. The Chapman Report, Wallace (4) 5. The View from the Fortieth Floor, White (9) 6. The Affair, Snow (5) 7. Water of Life, Robinson (7) 8. The Constant Image, Davenport (8) 9. Trustee from the Toolroom, Shute 10. Clea, Durrell NONFICTION 1. May This House Be Safe from Tigers, King (2) 2. Born Free, Adamson ( 1 ) 3. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (3) 4. I Kid You Not, Paar (4) 5. Felix Frankfurter Reminisces, Frankfurter with Phillips (6) 6. How I Made...