Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grain abroad. Inevitably, rumors spread that the Kremlin would scrap the Virgin Lands experiment. Sure enough, an official declaration last week implied just that. After spending $7.4 billion and drafting 350,000 fulltime farmers to work on the dubious project, the regime seemed to feel it was time to stop cultivating additional acreage in the far-off Virgin Lands, concentrate instead on raising output in the more fertile regions of European Russia...
...chief of the State Budget Department, who was asked to submit a draft of the fiscal-year budget. The official replied, "What kind of budget do you want, sir? A balanced budget, a budget with a deficit, or a budget with a surplus?" Snapped Mansur: "We are going to stop fooling the public and fooling ourselves...
Moving in on Nus's responsibilities, Mrs. Gilderbloom and her supporters voted to toss out a faculty-designed change in the grading system, and began meddling in classrooms. One teacher was told to stop class discussion of Communism; another was reprimanded for mentioning menstruation in a mixed physiology class. Some students, says one history teacher, began taking a blindly ultrarightist line in class-calling federal aid to education "Communistic," for example, and criticizing President Johnson for being friendly with Auto Unionist Walter Reuther. At the same time, Pleasantville was well supplied with right-wing literature, much of it distributed...
...dired straight. The line of Bathgate, McKenney, and Dave Keon was on the ice during eight Toronto goals in two games last weekend, after being united only a week before. If these men keep scoring and the defense starts to pull itself together, the Leafs will be hard to stop...
...thrown the downtown merchants and the police into a panic...they seem even more confused than we are. The s.b. campaign ... is damn near one hundred per cent effective, and the town is in a real hurt. Police cruisers have started following us everywhere we go. We have to stop hitching rides, since anyone who picks us up can be sure of getting a ticket and a stiff fine. We have no car. Repairs have not yet begun on the community center building, but we have at last found a Negro contractor who is not afraid to take...