Word: consents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Consent. White slavery, says Author Terrot, was no problem in Britain before the 19th century. The French started the trouble. In 1804 the Code Napoléon, a writ that ran through Western Europe, raised the age of consent to 21, and any man who had sexual relations with a minor could be brought to trial (penalty: two years' imprisonment). Suddenly the Continental whoremongers found it convenient to get their fresh recruits from foreign fields, notably England, where, as Author Terrot puts it, "any child of twelve was legally competent to consent to her own seduction." (Exception...
...sooner did the full-page ad for Allen Drury's bestseller Advise and Consent appear in the New York Times last week than telephones started ringing at Publisher Doubleday & Co. and its ad agency, Franklin Spier. How in the world had Doubleday lined up those models? There was Vice President Richard Nixon standing beside an airliner chatting animatedly with Democratic Presidential Candidate John Kennedy. The apparent object of conversation: Advise and Consent, gripped firmly in Nixon's hand...
...Both men had been traveling west from Washington last June 19 on a United Air Lines DC-7, were met by reporters during a layover in Chicago. The airline photographer assigned to celebrity duty asked the two men to pose, and handed Nixon the advance copy of Advise and Consent that Kennedy had been reading on the flight. United ran the picture in the October issue of the company's Mainliner magazine, sent a copy to Newsman Drury, who passed it on to Doubleday. The publishers tried a small ad in the Washington Post, then went whole hog with...
...Advise and Consent, Drury...
...expressed his approval of the Faculty-student committee for having "the best interests of College drama in mind." Selection of plays, he noted, will not be made by a technical vote, with each student and Faculty member having one ballot. The committee will seek instead to reach a common consent...