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...Friendly came right out and called Emmy a tart. "Insofar as CBS News is concerned," he wrote in a memo to the staff, "we have not and shall not purchase memberships for our employees; we shall not participate in the awards ceremonies, and I recommend that we even desist from voting in this so-called competition...
Soon Scandalous John and Paco, mounted on two broken-down nags, are relentlessly driving Old Blue up the Chisum Trail toward the distant stock yards. For weeks through sun, sand and storm, they plod onward, encountering temptation and incomprehension. Nearly everybody along the way tries to persuade John to desist. As for the neatly laid-out fences that block their path, he blithely cuts them. "If you want to get some place in this world," he says, "you've got to cut fence now and again . . . The extent of a man's fences is the extent...
...want to know if there were any Negroes in the Ark." In pursuit of his obsessions, Beckwith passed out racist pamphlets that he wrote himself, launched such an aggressive recruiting drive for the local white Citizens Council that its officers finally asked him to desist. He also stood in the doorway of Greenwood's bus terminal to block Negroes trying to integrate the facilities...
...agent or landlord refuses to discuss the matter, the housing aide advises the applicant to file a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. The MCAD may then decide to issue a cease and desist order...
...must desist from talking about 'winning' or 'prevailing' in the Cold War." Hughes asserted. "Rather, we must begin to talk about ending the Cold War." Outlining an immediate four-part program toward that goal, Hughes demanded the unequivocal renunciation of a first strike by the United States, a halt to nuclear testing, U.S. refusal to help other countries including allies to develop nuclear power, and the creation of "nuclear free zones" such as Africa and Central Europe...