Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latest upcropping of a 20-year-old unofficial ban that began when the Nazis began persecuting the Jews. Israel's extremist press threatened trouble every time the question of German music arose. Violinist Heifetz was not deterred, played the sonata anyhow, and won an ovation. Said he: "I don't recognize any bans, official or unofficial, on the playing of music." The following night, in Tel Aviv, he played Strauss again. Perhaps for the first time in his career, Heifetz drew stony silence instead of applause...
Stars and Stripes reporter John J. Sack '51, former CRIMSON editor and best-selling author of "The Butcher," was arrested by military police yesterday for smuggling himself aboard a Chinese prisoner ship in defiance of a strict press ban...
...Sack boarded the prisoner ship--an LST--at Cheju Island. It was enroute to Pusan, Korea, with a load of Chinese Communists bound for repatriation. As the prisoners filed off the ship at Pusan, military police spotted Sack and detained him for violating a "no press allowed" ban...
...Security Council, the Soviet delegation said yes to a Swede for U.N. Secretary General (see below), and Soviet Delegate Andrei Vishinsky hinted that Russia may have changed its attitude on disarmament. Instead of demanding an unconditional ban on atomic weapons, he now showed signs of interest in the Western plan for disarmament by stages, with enforceable guarantees...
...Fifth Amendment professors will be the chief sufferers from the AAU's illogic. University "tribunals," well within the policy of the report, can violate the tenure of any one of them, merely because he cannot prove he is not a Communist. Thus, the AAU's ban on Communists opens the gates to widespread firing of tenured teachers who invoke the Amendment, by any AAU university which feels uncomfortable under public pressure. This loophole, then, is the report's great weakness...