Word: hush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stagecoach Inn, Salado, Texas. Sam Houston and Jim Bowie knew it as a relay station for the Overland stages. Magnificent setting and a highly diversified menu, which includes such local favorites as banana fritters and hush puppies...
...addition, it ran farms, dealt in antiques and trafficked in drugs. But perhaps its biggest racket was protection. If the bribe was right, UDBA could hush up crimes or fix sentences for defendants facing stiff penalties. In fact, UDBA was not above framing...
...reduce any airborne noise passing through by 45 decibels. In Geneva, Switzerland, it is an offense to slam a car door too loudly. France confiscates automobiles that repeat noise violations. The rubber, plastic-or leather-guarded garbage can is commonplace in London, Paris and Berlin-an improvement that could hush Manhattan's most characteristic and deafening early-morning sound. Bermuda has instituted the quiet motorbike. Outboard motors are losing their bark; truck mufflers that kill the roar are available...
...Hush Money. Apart from pool rentals, the studio enriched the Connecticut economy in several other ways. A buzz-saw operator whose activities were marring the sound track was paid $200 to knock it off for the day. This in turn sent everybody and his mother out into the yards for miles around with everything from compressors to power mowers, looking for further hush money. This week 175 members of the Lake Club of New Canaan are scheduled to share the loot as extras. It's not that they need the $5 a day; it's the glimpse...
Pralines & Pompano. The young orchestra (average age: 33), when not involved in its programs or teaching 80 students at the festival's music school, is having a jolly good bash. Festival patrons have showered the musicians with champagne parties, shrimp boils at the yacht club, and enough pralines, hush puppies and fried pompano to fuel Her Majesty's navy. Last week, for those musicians who could tear themselves away from golf, water-skiing and deep-sea fishing, there was a lavish beach party with barbecued chicken, baked beans and 60 gallons of sangría, a bubbly mixture...