Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present ban on spring practice would stay in force under the proposal. The question of participating in post-season all-star competition has been left up to the decision of the presidents. They may either clamp a ban on this practice too, or decide to leave it up to the individual colleges...
Died. Joseph Burstyn, 53. U.S. importer-distributor of foreign films (Open City, Paisan, The Bicycle Thief), who fought a 1951 New York State ban on The Miracle and last year won a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision reversing it; of a coronary thrombosis...
...Pursuit of Fire Water Sir: Your Nov. 2 report that the Arizona Synod of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. recommended . . . that the ban on the sale of liquor to Indians be lifted is in error. Synod did not make this recommendation. Rather, in the interest of civil rights, Synod voted to request Governor Howard Pyle to put the matter and final decision in the hands of Indian tribal councils ... It isn't that Presbyterians are in favor of liquor. The point is that they are against discrimination, and they feel that white man's laws banning...
...month things were different in Portugal. Censorship was relaxed. The ban on political meetings and speeches was lifted, criticism of the government was allowed, and an opposition political committee (though it could not call itself a party) was permitted to campaign. It contested 28 of the 120 seats in the National Assembly, all held by Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar's boys. Then, precisely at midnight one day last week, the "political campaign" was declared at an end, and Portugal turned back into one man's pumpkin. "Silence! Silence!" said the final campaign headline in the opposition newspaper...
...lonely man sat watching a deserted stage in the Old Howard Theatre last night as Boston's ban on obscene "girlie" shows went into effect...