Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overeat when other outlets for strong emotion are thwarted. I eat to punish myself. I eat to stop time, to avoid responsibility. I eat when I am unhappy. I eat when I am lonely. I eat when I am unloved...
...Last week, however, the old lady kicked up her heels over a victory that greatly increased both her prestige and power. Overruling two lower-court decisions, the Supreme Court held that the FTC acted correctly when, in 1962, it ordered Colgate-Palmolive and the Ted Bates ad agency to stop using a mock-up of Plexiglas and sand to demonstrate on TV that Palmolive Rapid Shave could make it easy to "shave" sandpaper. From now on, the FTC will be in a position to ban any deceptive mock-ups that advertisers try to use to "prove" their claims...
Businessmen usually obey the guidelines because they know that the FTC is tough to beat once it does go to court. The commission recently persuaded scores of sellers and advertisers to stop claiming falsely that products have been made by blind persons, exaggerating the profits that small investors can earn in Laundromat businesses, and enticing children to become salesmen by deceptive offers of "free" merchandise. Says Dixon: "I'm a great admirer of President Johnson's attitude of 'Come, let us reason together...
...answers they got generally concerned small and immediate problems: "The landlord won't fix the stairs;" "We should have a stop sign on the corner." When the same problem occurred several times within one block, the workers usually convinced a few neighbors to present a joint petition to their landlord or to city officials. Often they were successful; John M. Mendeloff '67 proudly tells visitors, "That's our sign," as he passes one stop sign in the nine-block triangle in which the Center operates...
...this method proved a deadend. The volunteers had neither the time nor the experience to transform a stop-sign protest into full-fledged organization on each street. And each block remained a separate unit, rather than fusing into a larger movement...