Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year the rumor went around that the authorities and more sophisticated islanders were embarrassed by the primitive revelry of the Ra Ra bands, and would attempt to ban them from the capital. But in Port-au-Prince, police said they had no orders to stop the merry processions, and even priests admitted that they saw no harm in the Judas hunt. "We take a neutral view, neither encouraging nor discouraging it," explained one. "It is part of the people's need for release...
Whatever happened to color TV? In 1951, to conserve scarce materials, the Government banned the manufacture of color TV sets. Last week Washington lifted the ban, and the TV industry was, theoretically, free to spurt ahead with color. Actually, it seemed to be just ambling along...
...yesterday's hearings, a Rutgers law professor refused to say whether he was a Communist in 1941. Abraham Glasser, who was a Justice Department attorney when he was cleared of the accusation in 1941, said he is protected from answering by the due process clause and the constitutional ban against forcing a person to testify against himself...
...years now University students have defied one of Cambridge's most arbitrary laws: the ban on all night parking. And, except for periodic spurts of activity by local policemen, they have escaped unticketed. But lately another crusade has commenced, and little remembrances from the local law enforcers bring the law back into gloomy prominence...
...Platoon Ban Also Hurt...