Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jodhpur's cops, under the agitated command of Police Superintendent Sobhagmal Surana, have been on constant guard at the city's cremation grounds to prevent further acts of suttee. The priest who had charge of the original Singh funeral is in jail awaiting trial for making a pyre built for two. But every day and night, crowds of worshipers throng the death site with offerings that range from coconuts to gold plate, and from all sides the halt, the near hopeless and the blind hobble into the city, seeking miracles and willing to pay the holy men generously...
...students is eight Negroes to one white, it will be many years before integration is even feasible. The paper therefore supports an amendment to the State constitution allowing the abolition of public schools. The paper also says that "countless other devices can be called into legal use" to prevent mixing the races, including "the use of military and police power." Some students are extreme, says the paper, while others "stand in a quagmire of apathy, whispering "it can't happen here." But even this determined paper admits that integration will happen, perhaps not before "20, 30, 40, or 50 years...
...official word that he will be welcome in the U.S. Polygamist Tribhubana, in Switzerland for repairs on his heart, had earlier mentioned that he might go to the U.S. for further treatment. A Zurich busybody started an international ruckus by warning a royal aide that U.S. immigration laws would prevent the King and his wives from so much as getting off the boat. After a chorus of hospitable noises arose from the U.S. State Department, the U.S. consul general in Zurich last week proclaimed that Tribhubana and his exotic entourage may enter the U.S. any time, provided they...
...milk markets, grocery stores charged an average of 20. 1? quart, 3.1? less than the average home-delivered price. In 18 state-controlled markets, the grocery price averaged 23.6? a quart, only 2? less than the home-delivered price. Says Economist Bartlett: "Modified federal regulation is absolutely essential to [prevent] chaos in milk markets. [But] state control of consumer prices constitutes a legalized monopoly which is definitely against the public interest...
Antifreeze Gas. To prevent automobile fuel lines, pumps, etc.from freezing with the water that condenses inside the gas tank, Standard Oil Co. (Indiana) is putting a new additive into its premium White Crown gas. The additive forms a solution with the water to keep it from freezing (down to 20° below zero) in the fuel lines...