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Marquette University, in Milwaukee, has ordered a crackdown on girls who "kiss goodnight in front of dormitories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marquette Prohibits Kissing on Campus | 11/30/1956 | See Source »

...care; if you've shown her Boston's bright spots the previous time, it'll show her you're adaptable, not addicted to splendor, and not afraid she is. After the U.T., you adjourn to a sofa or car to see whether she was bluffing when she kissed you goodnight...

Author: By David Royce, | Title: Sex and Society: Coming of Age at Harvard | 10/8/1955 | See Source »

...apartment of 31-year-old Leonard Powell, a burly (6 ft. 3 in., 210 lbs.) truck driver. Tottering, dripping blood, "looking crazy," Carpenter forced his way in at gunpoint, ordered Powell and his wife, Stella, into the living room. Diane, 3, was asleep. Robert, 7, came in to say goodnight. Powell stared silently at Carpenter, nodded at his pistol. Gunman Carpenter put it out of sight until the boy went to his bed. Stella helped make bedsheet bandages, obediently fed the guest bananas and milk as Carpenter sprawled on the couch, a shaky hand on his pistol. "We sat like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: 23 Hours | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

...summoned his Cabinet; members of his household joined in a last, three-hour conference. Vargas agreed to step down. He accepted a theoretically face-saving solution: a leave of absence, with Vice President Cafe Filho taking over his office. Then, rising slowly from his chair, he bowed and said: "Goodnight, gentlemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Goodbye to a Gaucho | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

...order to bail out. For the first time, he noticed the cargo: case after case of salad oil. King poured the salad oil into the faulty hydraulic system. The gear lowered smoothly, the plane landed safely, and Captain King and his grateful passengers shook hands and said goodnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Saved by Salad Oil | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

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