Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...announcing themselves in advance-a far cry from the old open-up-in-the-name-of-the-law ceremony that, police say, often gave the occupants time to destroy such evidence as narcotics or gambling records by flushing them down the toilet. The other new measure, promptly labeled the stop-and-frisk law, permits a policeman to stop, search and demand identification of "any person abroad in public whom he reasonably suspects is committing, has committed or is about to commit a felony...
Overheated Rhetoric. While the anti-crime bills were being considered by the legislature, they got strong support from law-enforcement agencies, but many lawyers were loud in their disapproval. Said the State Bar Association in denouncing the stop-and-frisk proposal: "Nowhere in the history of Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence have we so closely approached a police state." When Rockefeller signed the bills anyway, another organization, made up largely of lawyers and called the Emergency Committee for Public Safety, attacked the new laws as "the worst police state measures ever enacted in the history of our nation-ominously dangerous enactments threatening...
...result was cacophonous. A car behind Martin smashed into him and spun sideways. Brakes squealing, slewing in the slush like slalom racers, car after car piled helplessly into the snarl. When things finally skidded to a stop, 34 cars were locked in a tangled mass, blocking the expressway from curb to curb-and providing a classic picture of what happens in modern civilization when the slightest thing goes wrong...
...vast majority of women who take the pills do not want to be made infertile; they merely wish to space their pregnancies and control the number of their children. Almost invariably they ask: "If I take the pills for a couple of years, and then stop, will I be able to conceive?" The answer is an emphatic yes. By a sort of rebound effect, the pills increase fertility in women who stop taking them. Indeed, the pills were largely developed by a Roman Catholic gynecologist, Boston's Dr. John Rock, working with Biologist Gregory...
...sales tax on most nonfood products. In Italy the government's austerity program aims at raising taxes on cars and gasoline, restricting installment purchases. Some manufacturers protest that such measures may brake Europe's boom too hard, but political leaders insist that drastic action is needed to stop the rise in export prices and narrow the trade deficits that have been growing dangerously in Italy and Britain...