Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Immediate and drastic steps to ban student cars completely from Cambridge...
NOTHING will stir a Filipino newsman into excited conversation faster these days than a mention of Jim Bell, TIME'S Hong Kong bureau chief. Last week two big Philippine newspapers, the Manila Times and Bulletin, protested editorially against President Carlos Garcia's recent decision to ban Bell from the Philippines for reporting the corruption and increasing anti-Americanism of Garcia's government (TIME, Feb. 2). Said the Times: "The broad principles of press freedom are threatened by the President's attitude toward the Bell case." In almost 15 years as one of TIME...
...Spanish economy since 1951, Spain, by a marvel of mismanagement, is in serious economic straits. In two years, the cost of living has jumped 40%, and prices are still rising. Spanish gold reserves are down to a skimpy $57 million; dollar reserves are virtually exhausted. And despite an official ban on the existence of any political party except Franco's decrepit Falange, Spain abounds in opposition groups. Well known to Franco's police, they range from a clutch of monarchist factions to syndicalists and anarchists, all the way to the Communists, who though few in number, are well...
Particularly pleased by the news was a vigorous, 50-year-old Crow Indian named Frank Takes Gun, who has been taking his gun on the warpath against the peyote ban ever since he was elected international president of the Native American Church four years ago. He has been aided in his campaign by the testimony of anthropologists, including the late Franz Boas, that the peyote ritual was truly religious, and by the failure of various federal attempts to classify peyote as a narcotic. (Though it may produce a hangover, it is not habit-forming and no more skull-popping than...
TRADING-STAMP BAN has been passed by Wyoming legislature, goes to Governor Joe Hickey for his approval or veto. Stamps are outlawed in Kansas and District of Columbia; other states have statutes that discourage use of stamps...