Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rebellious high priest of Hue. Carrying civil disobedience to an ingenious new low, Tri Quang ordered all Buddhists in the ancient imperial capital to display their defiance by hauling family altars out of their homes into the nearest street. Thousands complied, and the Hue police did nothing to stop them. The altars blocked all roads, halting for 48 hours convoys on their way to a military buildup north of Hue-until Tri Quang generously allocated a few hours every day for the troops to pass. Then, writing a violent letter accusing Washington of "imperialism," he went on a hunger strike...
...finding targets. Kenneth Galbraith and Jackie Robinson declined on the grounds that the honorarium, $320, was insufficient. Senator William Fulbright didn't even reply to his invitation, and both Bobby and Teddy Kennedy begged off (TIME, April 8). A shortage of guests is the only thing that could stop Firing Line from running forever. That wouldn't necessarily put Buckley out of show business. Last week, after taping a program on the U.S. theater, his guest, David Merrick, offered him a Broadway part. Buckley declined. He is his own best producer...
...made more than 60 movies, was nominated for an Oscar three times (and three times missed). And all the while, the typecasting was burning her up. "People are always telling me that I must be 50 if I'm a day," she complained last year. "I must stop playing bitches on wheels-and people's mothers. One of these days I'd like to get my hands on a part in which I can hit many chords." She did at last, with Mame, but only after the producers wrote off a pack of other candidates -Mary Martin...
...simple as the diagnosis had been painstaking: aspirin to ease the pain and a combination of rest with gentle exercises to free the joints. The doctors did not bother to order Ike to ease up on golf; they figured that if it hurt too much, he would simply stop playing...
...rooms, was considered intimate by a King's standards at that time. Even royal princes had to ask permission to visit. "Delicious gardens!" exclaimed that great collector of court gossip, the Duc de Saint-Simon. And in Louis XIV's day, the gardens did not stop at the doors; his mistress, Madame de Maintenon, liked to change color and perfume by rearranging the Trianon's million flower pots daily...