Word: stops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...terms of political philosophy, Halleck's position was equally clear: "What do I stand for? First of all, I stand for a balanced budget . . . We should stop the waste and extravagance and quit piling up the debt." What the U.S. needed was a "new Calvin Coolidge." As international crisis drew the U.S. closer to World War II, Charlie Halleck took his place in the front ranks of isolationism. He voted against Lend-Lease, against the fortification of Guam, against Selective Service. "Enemy ships would have to come...
...Prostrate Form. An organization named STOP (the Committee to Stop This Outrageous Purge) was quickly formed, just as quickly got 9,603 signatures on a petition demanding the ouster of the segregationists. In retaliation, segregationists formed CROSS (the Committee to Retain Our Segregated Schools), which filed its own petition demanding the recall of the moderates...
...Blanc by Moonlight. Even to Gromyko it was clear that all this was not going to get the conference far. "When," he asked Selwyn Lloyd, "are we going to stop all this public talking?" The answer was whenever one side or the other asked for secret sessions-an implied indication that it was ready to make concessions. But France's incisive Maurice Couve de Murville, strongly seconded by Herter, argued that since it was Russia that had instigated the conference by fomenting the Berlin crisis, it was up to the Russians to make the first move...
...most Indianapolis cars, installed it on its side at an 18° angle for cooler running and lower center of gravity. The idea was so successful that 16 of the 61 original entries in this year's 500 have sidewinder engines. To cut the time on pit stops, Salih this year installed an air-jack system, estimated it could lift the car into tire-changing position in eight-tenths of a second, save a precious four to seven seconds on each stop...
...companies, spreading his risk as wide as the economy. Even more important, he also buys savvy in the stock market, letting the fund managers do his buying and selling for him. Says a St. Louis businessman who gave up making his own investments: "I'm going to stop worrying about stocks and take life easy. Let those boys...