Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that are festooned around mud-hut walls. Fortnight ago, Mau Mau sent a message to these teeming slums: "Africans will stop using mzungu [white-owned] buses, and will stop smoking cigarettes." For emphasis, they strangled one bus-using, cigarette-smoking Kikuyu and tossed his body into the Nairobi River. Overnight, every Negro in the capital, from government-employed clerks to road sweepers and shop assistants, stopped using the buses and stopped smoking cigarettes...
...Monday morning the splintered trophies are propped on a score of House mantlepieces, or have already found their way to Smith, Vassar, or Wellesley in overnight bags. And a small man, red-faced, with steel-grey hair, paces Soldiers Field and checks the damage...
...Deputies fights its stormy battles had the broad, florid face of a peasant surmounted by a thatch of obstreperous, oiled-down red hair. But the voice that came out was the courtly, confident baritone of a man who, to the surprise of almost all concerned, has blossomed almost overnight into Italy's leading statesman. For two hours last week, Premier Giuseppe Pella ranged over Italy's relations with the rest of the world...
Cott does not think that sponsors will come flocking overnight to pick up the tabs, but he hopes to convince enough of them that radio has a vast audience (including the motorized public) that television does not touch. "I don't expect to get anyone to turn off TV," he says. "My concern is that radio hasn't done anything to make people responsive to it. We expect to be the most aggressive radio network, and we think it will help all of radio, by making everyone more competitive, and forcing them to put on better shows...
...therefore propose that Cambridge and the University permit overnight parking on all streets used for parking during the daytime so that the students who cannot afford to keep their car in a garage will have the opportunity to take their chances on finding a space at night in a spot which will not hamper the fire department in its operations. An enforcement of meter laws during the daytime will eliminate the possibility of business firms suffering from space "hogging." John W. Stephens...