Word: halts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...punished by two years in prison and a $5,000 fine, v. one year in prison and a $1,000 fine at present. For the narcotics addict who peddles dope mainly to finance his habit, a civil commitment statute under preparation would provide for rehabilitation rather than incarceration. - Halt mail-order sales of firearms to individuals (Lee Harvey Oswald got his assassination weapon through a mail-order house) and restrict the importation of surplus military weapons. - Provide for increased training of local officers by federal law-enforcement agencies and finance research on improved justice and law enforcement on the local...
Under slate-grey skies, U.S. Marine landing craft plowed through 5-ft. waves in the Bay of Danang, came to a halt with gravelly crunches, and dropped their ramps. Out poured hundreds of U.S. marines in full battle dress, with M-14 rifles held at high port. They were the vanguard of a 3,500-man force, the first marines since Korea to hit the beaches in a combat zone, and the first U.S. combat-as opposed to "advisory" -troops to arrive in South Viet...
Harvard's chances for four first places in the Eastern Intercollegiate swimming Championships came to a grinding halt yesterday when ace butterflyer Neville Hayes came down with the flu and had to be driven back to Cambridge...
Missed Mother. The aim of the largely Catholic, largely right-wing rebels was to halt what they considered a drift toward neutralism in South Viet Nam, and they even extolled deposed, murdered President Ngo Dinh Diem. Whatever the rebels' motives, had they succeeded, the Buddhists would have instantly taken to the streets. As it turned out, the rebels did not succeed-but who did was far from clear...
...paralysis set in during November, when President Arturo Illia attempted to call a halt to inflation-nurturing pay raises for 900,000 public employees. The unions, which were demanding another round of 25% to 45% pay hikes, responded with an unending succession of strikes and slowdowns. At one point this month, 300,000 telephone, railroad, postoffice, airport, merchant-fleet and port employees were on strike; even casino croupiers and street cleaners left their jobs...