Word: legalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...medical soiree honoring him in Buffalo, New Orleans' famed Surgeon Alton Ochsner finally went all-out in his six-year battle against smoking, as the primary cause of lung cancer. Tobacco-shunning Dr. Ochsner's No. 1 shocker, raising a prospect of future U.S. smoke-easies: legal prohibition of smoking may become necessary if the incidence of lung cancer continues to increase at its present alarming rate...
...Texas prohibitionists that 143 of the state's 254 counties prohibit the sale of liquor in any form; so powerful are Texas thirsts that a drink is seldom harder to get in a dry area than in the 29 counties where the sale of hard liquor is legal. Last week, in an eleven-part series that marked the first time any Texas newspaper had ever published a searching, statewide report on the social effects of the state's alcoholic schizophrenia, the Houston Post (circ. 201,647) stirred the biggest uproar among dry voters and wet drinkers since Texas...
...engines splatted into life, the big word was not speed but acceleration. Since almost any new U.S. car can easily top 100 m.p.h., Detroit was interested in showing that its family cars also have the zip to whip away from a stop light and spin up to the legal speed limit in a minimum length of time...
Since the revolt of East Berlin workers in June 1953, the tendency of the practical Germans has been to avoid open clashes with authority but to press for legal concessions, e.g., shorter working hours, lower prices in the state stores. East Germany's 88,000 students, however, have shown open irritation with the fact that almost one-third of their study time is taken up with Communist indoctrination, Russian language lessons, and "sport and technology," i.e., guerrilla training. At East Berlin's Humboldt University last November, as students gathered on the campus to discuss the Hungarian situation, clandestine...
...Sullivan's manipulations with the Cambridge School Committee did not affect the city's educational system, they might be humorously reminiscent of the type of enlightened city government which used to rule around the turn of the century. It is somewhat entertaining to observe the machinations by which legal procedure can be circumvented or strategically misused in order to make desired appointments...