Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator Eugene McCarthy [March 22] has brought back the virtue Hope to the American political scene. Regrettably, the Senator's antiwar campaign is also based on hope, not reality. The Senator hopes that if we stop the bombing there will be peace-as if events had not cast even the slightest discredit upon such fatuous wishing. Until the Communists show an interest in a just peace that does not involve simple N.L.F. takeover, a bombing halt would be merely a quixotic exercise in futility...
CITIES OF THE WORLD. NET embarks on a series of tours of five famous cities. First stop: "Mary McCarthy's Paris," where the novelist points out not only landmarks but also the problems of living and working in the City of Light...
...modern-art converts out of several of his neighbors. Even the Mayers' butler now assembles collages from bow ties and false teeth, which Mayer hangs along with his Oldenburgs and Tingue-lys. "We buy what we like," he explains, "not for appreciation, but enjoyment. I hope we never stop...
With Schweitzer's full approval, the central bankers of the U.S. and six other leading industrial nations revised a key part of the world's monetary rules. They agreed to stop buying and selling gold, and to use their remaining store of the precious metal only to settle debts between nations. Thus out of their hastily called weekend meeting was born a two-tier pricing system for gold. For central-bank exchanges of gold and dollars, the familiar $35-per-oz. price continues. For speculators, hoarders and industrial users, the price was freed to find its own level...
...Connecticut happily antique-hunting with your mother. You stop off at an auction and spend $3.50 on a "mystery chest." Six men help you carry it to your Ford station wagon, and when you open it, you find 40 metal film tins marked: Greed, Reels 1-40. "What a long film to make about such an unpleasant subject," your mother says as you open one of the tins. The film wound around the rusty reels is brown and moldy: fungus-like organisms have sprouted from the innumerable folds. Overcome by a powerful smell, you sneeze on it, and the brown...