Word: occurence
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...bears the same relation to her first two books that a B-girl does to a prostitute: its implied promise is sex in return for money, but what it delivers is merely a phony hotel room key and a whiff of perfume. A certain amount of houghmagandy does occur ("His touch on her body was the lightest she could ever imagine and it awakened every single nerve . . ."), but it is pallid stuff compared with the rape, incest, flagellation and other veneries of Peyton Place and Return to Peyton Place. If Author Metalious continues such deception, her readers will...
...Never Thought." It was the first child kidnaping for ransom in Australia's history, and it raised a big fuss. "Some how we have never thought that it could occur in this country." said New South Wales's Premier Robert Heffron sadly. Whenever the Thornes left their home, carloads of reporters and cameramen tagged along. The family pastor. Anglican Minister Clive Goodwin, who had offered to serve as go-between with the kidnapers, withdrew after two days, explaining that so much publicity made his intermediary's role "no longer possible...
...Delays occur in part because the U.S. court system, in a time of increasing U.S. population, is short in manpower, in part because legal techniques have not kept pace, in part because of the population's increased proclivity for injuring itself, for infringing on neighbor's rights, and for going to court. To overcome the delays, tradition-minded jurists are gingerly trying new techniques. These include longer court days, sessions during summer (when the courts are ordinarily recessed), and giving priority to nonjury trials in order to encourage litigants to choose these speedier hearings. Even so, the legal...
Already Hammarskjold was turning what one aide describes as "his Renaissance mind, fast and flexible," to the disasters he thought might occur as Africa's once-colonial states gained independent nationhood. Back in 1956 he had strongly urged the creation of a U.N. international professional and technical civil service for new nations that lacked competent officials. The idea was part of Hammarskjold's pet theory of "preventive diplomacy," which he defines as "smelling conflict in the air before it is on your table." Sniffing the troubled air, Hammarskjold last winter took a six-week tour of Africa, including...
Naturally, a custody suit is filed, and naturally, De Sica, hired by Gable to represent him, pays more attention to Loren than to law. Some fine shouting matches occur, in one of which an enraged bystander, delivering a memorable non sequitur, shouts at Gable, "Get out of the Middle East...