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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...head-'em-off-at-the-passport, but his salary and his reputation remained minuscule. In one he suffered the ultimate indignity as Singin' Sandy, the screen's first melodious cowpoke. The hoarse opera was swiftly dubbed, and Wayne returned to the role of Speakin' Star. The movies soon found an acceptable substitute: fella named Gene Autry...
...laws invited ar bitrary interpretation and unequal en forcement. All that was needed to prove lascivious carriage, for example, was some sign of sexual activity. "Oh, you know - rumpled sheets, both of them in a state of undress - that sort of thing," said one policeman. The police also found lascivious carriage a handy stat ute to invoke against anyone whose conduct displeased them. "When you see a black boy and a white girl together," said a Connecticut policeman, "well, you just know what's going...
...Uses. Since such laws are usually invoked only in cases of flagrant indiscretion, there is little public pressure to abolish them. But the laws are by no means dead, and new uses are occasionally found for them. Recently New Jersey successfully invoked its rarely used 179-year-old law prohibiting fornication. The case involved a pregnant mother on welfare and her former lover. Though the defense counsel argued that being pregnant when on welfare was the woman's real offense, the court gave her a suspended sentence of six months and placed her on probation for two years...
...white missionaries. Now, however, the black clergy has taken the lead in Africanizing Catholic ritual. Masses all across the continent are beginning to employ old dance forms and chants. In Zambia, even the tribal lamentations at the bedside of the dying are being reintroduced. Vernacular masses can be found almost everywhere, and native drums, long used to call the faithful to church, are now a common part of many religious services. Though not all. Complained one Ugandan: "It sounds too much like a beer party...
Detroit automakers have found that regular use of the polyisobutylene compounds can occasionally clog small oil passages and cause engine damage. Ray Potter, retired supervisor of fuels and lubricant research at Ford, says: "No one has ever presented any scientific data to prove that additives do anything good." The auto manufacturers do not recommend the use of additives except to deal with some "special problems." The trouble is that the ordinary driver cannot really diagnose those problems...