Word: ban
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Laos. High-speed trails have been cut eastward from Laos into South Viet Nam to supply the Communist besiegers, who are heavily armed with portable howitzers and mortars. To ensure easier access to the new trails, the Communists last week overran the Royal Laotian border outpost of Ban Houei Sane and put its 2,000 defenders to flight...
Despite its reluctance to uphold censorship, the Supreme Court has more than once hinted that laws carefully and narrowly aimed at creating a ban for juveniles might well be constitutional. Taking the hint, New York State passed a statute in 1965 making it a crime to sell to anyone under 17 any material that presents a salacious view of "nudity, sexual conduct or sado-masochistic abuse." Similarly inspired, Dallas enacted a municipal ordinance empowering a nine-man board to label films as "not suitable for young persons"; movie theaters can be fined $200 for admitting anyone under 16 to such...
...ban was vague, impractical and "absurd" anyway, said Louis Nizer, who appeared for the film industry. He pointed out that eight of Dallas' banned films had subsequently been on television in full view of any twelve-year-old. Adding that six cities were already copying the Dallas law, he asked that it be thrown out. If it is not, he said, it would be an "intolerable burden" on the film industry. The court will hear no further argument on the subject, but will render a decision some time before recessing in June...
Each time the U.S. Supreme Court considers and then overturns a censor's ban on pornography, Americans wonder where it will all lead. To an increase in sexual aberration? To corruption of youth? To an outpouring of filth from every newsstand and bookshelf? Parallels with other countries are never exact, but some answers to the questions may be found in Denmark. Eight months ago, that country became the first in the West to pass a law abolishing all censorship of anything written, without exception...
...years ago, Denmark would have been as unlikely to pass such a law as Duluth. At the time, Danish courts could-and did-successfully ban such standard suppressibles as the Marquis de Sade and Fanny Hill. But as in the U.S. a decade ago, the explicitly sensational works of Henry Miller and Jean Genet were beginning to slip by. Over the years, liberalizing pressures began to build, until by 1967 kiosks abounded with magazines and paperbacks whose photographs of sexual variations and contortions made their descriptive prose unnecessary...