Word: stops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force's F89 fighter, and Tempo-Alcoa zoomed up to 180 m.p.h. Then he cut the engine. Two miles ahead, a small peninsula called Pelican Point jutted out into the water. The distance seemed safe enough. The boat had earlier slowed from 260 m.p.h. to a stop in less than a mile. But now a sudden breeze stirred sharp ruffles on Pyramid Lake. The chop broke the normal suction grabbing at the hull, turned the water into a fast-running surface. Tempo-Alcoa did not slow, instead seemed to take off at a speed that made the rudder...
...idea, but Taylor persisted with a plan to set up a two-year college in a grimy, abandoned Leeds school building. This fall the unenthusiastic ministry finally agreed, and Taylor was in business. After one newspaper ad, "we were inundated with replies, and the telephone didn't stop ringing for weeks." For its 100 places, the college got 3,000 inquiries, 1,400 applicants...
...proceeded to tell how, during the investigations, a "high city official" had offered Gleason $75 to $100 a week for laying off. "We can put your wives on the payroll," the city official supposedly said to Gleason, "and you won't have to do anything for it, just stop looking." Moderator Susskind turned to Gene Gleason: "Can I ask you if the city officer who made the offer is still functioning?" Replied Gleason: "He is still a part of the city administration...
Mortimer went to Stevens Institute, but left before graduation. He became a baking-powder salesman for R. B. Davis Co., was made head of sales at 22. His next stop was the Madison Avenue advertising agency of George Batten Co., where he worked on the Sanka account, pulled his weight alongside such later advertising stars as Ted Bates, William Benton (former Senator from Connecticut) and Chester Bowles. When Batten was sold to the agency that later became Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne, Mortimer went over to Postum, got a job as an assistant ad manager for Sanka and Calumet. Not long...
...problems in these countries, from Iran through Afghanistan and Pakistan to India, are of widely differing character. It is totally unrealistic to suppose that the brief stop of the President and 100 accompanying reporters is going to produce any dramatic change in the relations of these countries and the U.S., nor even much greater understanding on the part of these underdeveloped and nationalistic countries of the meaning of the "American way of life." What can and hopefully will occur is a greater realization and understanding of the problems these countries face; from their relations with China to the centralistic tendencies...