Word: fining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, as Pakistani educators cast about for ways to solve the sex crisis at Karachi U., one college head imposed a 5-rupee ($1.05) fine on boys and girls caught talking to each other; by week's end he had collected 100 rupees. Most male students, however, saw no hope. "They put the girls in the front row," moaned one. "Every time I look up, I see one dressed to kill. How can I listen to the lecture?" The real trouble, said another male flunkee, is that "college is the only time we have in our lives...
...only organization in Britain that might be expected to slap a fine on Queen Elizabeth II did just that. The autocratic Jockey Club notified defaulting Member Elizabeth that she would have to pay up $140 for failing to notify the club at least three days before the running of the Champion Stakes at Newmarket that her colt, Above Suspicion, would not be in the race...
...Paris." "It was a delightfully individualistic school," recalls a West German professor who studied there in the early 1930s, when it boasted many a towering scholar. "We studied hard. We enjoyed Leipzig and its charms-the wonderful Gewandhaus orchestra, the Friday night Bach concerts in the Thomaskirche and the fine restaurants...
Sell the Cell. In Buffalo, arrested after a noisy quarrel with his wife and a roomer, Melvin Schaffer gladly pleaded guilty to a drunk charge, was forlorn when his wife paid the $10 fine and took him home over his protests that he needed the alternate ten-day jail sentence for a rest...
Highballing along with a fine head of steam, the U.S. economy rolled into fall at near top speed. Latest statistics from Government and industry showed that production, employment and the earnings of the nation's corporations were all at high levels. Overhanging this bright picture of performance so far this year was a cloud cast by the effects of the steel strike, which will be felt for weeks to come (see below...