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Your article failed to report my reasons for introducing a bill to prohibit the service and consumption of alcoholic beverages on airplanes'; the bill's intent is to provide greater safety for passengers on aircraft. STROM THURMOND United States Senate Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 16, 1957 | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

...haunches when the word "Communist" appears, especially when a real live Red steps inside a city college's gates, paid for by city taxes. Yielding to the incipient pressure and potential indignation, the Administrative Council, whose salary is also paid by city taxes, saw no choice but to prohibit the Gates lecture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Off-Limits | 3/21/1957 | See Source »

...learn that a guest in a second-floor apartment, after igniting some logs in its fireplace, doused them on observing that the flue was all but clogged. The absent tenant of the lower suite: Architectitan Frank Lloyd Wright, 87, a great fireplace fancier, who has also been known to prohibit smoking by people in his presence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 11, 1957 | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

Texans, according to their own adage, "drink wet and vote dry." So strong are 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bootleg Report | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...bills introduced by Republicans would prohibit the suspension of drivers' licenses on a first offense for speeding. Another would authorize restoration of suspended licenses in "hardship cases." These would include licenses of truck drivers and others who make a living by driving...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Republicans Advocate Mitigating Connecticut Anti-Speed Campaign | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

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