Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although social life ordinarily is pretty dull in Luxembourg, there was nothing to stop Perle from throwing some of her big parties there (to entertain, she will have to add considerable of her own money to the $15,000 or $20,000 salary of a Minister). Since Mrs. Mesta is a widow, protocol officers were spared one problem: when it comes to table-setting, there is no place to put a Minister's husband...
...State of New Mexico went to Federal Court last week to stop the U.S. Government from grabbing any more of its land. This time it was the U.S. Army which wanted full title to a chunk of New Mexico almost as big as New Jersey - the 7,200-square-mile White Sands Proving Ground area for guided missiles...
...every day. A square-mile area of terraced grain fields to the east rose slowly until the land could no longer be cultivated. The villagers of Fukaba (pop. 153) came to Postmaster Mimatsu for advice. Since there had been no actual eruption, he assured them that the rising would stop soon...
...stop the fight I will kill myself," breathed hairy-chested Marcel Cerdan to his manager. Then the middle-aged (32) middleweight champion slumped back on his squat stool in Detroit's Briggs Stadium, close to exhaustion. "My title . . . my title," he mumbled in French...
...Catholic Legion of Decency ("a C rating for a picture is death"). One speaker (protectively anonymous in the report) said: "[The Legion] is something that Hollywood should have fought and didn't ... for the same reasons that they have never fought anything: they didn't want to stop the flow of film for one week." ¶The U.S. mass audience, even the moviemakers admitted, is more grownup in its tastes than the run of movies are, and would support more adult pictures. But the men from Hollywood did some buck-passing to the audience, too: the public perpetuates...