Word: stops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accident intersection" at the corner of Bow and Plympton Streets will get a stop sign sometime in the future. According to Edward Tierney, Cambridge Captain of Traffic, the city will place either a stop sign or a flashing red light at the intersection...
When newspaper critics greeted The Dark with cheers last week and daylong lines began forming at the box office, Inge could chalk up a topflight commercial and critical record on Broadway. His previous hits: Come Back, Little Sheba (1950), with Shirley Booth; Picnic (1953), a Pulitzer Prizewinner; and Bus Stop (1955), with Kim Stanley. Hollywood bought all three. Inge's total take: close to a million dollars...
Last week, on a rare note of bewilderment, Eugene Cervi confessed on Page One that the Rocky Mountain Journal's antitax campaign had received a mountainous boost; to his office had come a letter from an anonymous "admirer" urging continued efforts to "stop big Nick in his tax campaign." Enclosed: a $1,000 bill, with the suggestion: "If you can't go along with my idea, then turn the money over to your favorite charity...
...Farley Granger was chasing Julie Wilson around the dress racks, but it was almost too dark for him to see her. "I must kill you," he snarled, a 2-ft. flashlight swinging ominously from his hand. "And all the bells in hell can ring, but they can't stop me." Then the script, something called Come to Me, by Robert Crean and Comic Peter Lind Hayes, called for tool Julie to "gasp audibly" and for demented, drifting Farley to "move forward catlike, impressed with his cleverness," shouting in a "lyric brogue": "There's a radiance to you, Miss...
This oil rush stirred up powerful conservationist lobbies in far-off Washington. To stop the drilling, they lined up for battle against the oilmen, and even against Alaska conservationists who wanted to throw open all Kenai for exploration. The Interior Department moved to pacify the lobbyists. It proposed stiffer rules for granting oil leases on all U.S. gameland, suggested that the pro-moose Fish and Wildlife Service get veto power over gameland leases. And until the rules were formally adopted, the department suspended all leasing...