Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amazed that Doctor Zhivago was damned by Russia's so-called intellectuals, who obviously have not been able to read the book. Even in Boston we always read a book before we ban...
Just back from the fruitless U.S.-U.K.-U.S.S.R. nuclear test-ban talks in Geneva, Tennessee's Senator Albert Gore, member of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, formally recommended to the President that the U.S. continue tests of small-yield nuclear weapons underground and of nuclear weapons in outer space, e.g., antiaircraft or future antimissile-missile warheads to defend U.S. cities. The Communists, said Gore, are "insincere." And the U.S., if it keeps up its present line at Geneva, is in danger of getting "mousetrapped...
...push Fred Seaton could give-and Seaton pushed hard. He collected all the "things that ought to be done" and saved them for his campaign trip, frankly admitted that his basket of good news was calculated to help win the election. In Juneau he announced a long-awaited ban on the hated fish traps, symbol of the control of "absentee" Northwest fish canners and a chief cause of depletion of fish stocks. In Point Barrow, he promised a new water line, new National Guard armory, and gas lines, as well as the addition to the local school. For Anchorage...
...point, Nkrumah's strong-arm Minister of the Interior, Krobo ("The Crowbar") Edusei, inspected them along with an escort of guards armed with truncheons. Over the radio the government insisted that it had no desire to curb the opposition, even proclaimed the end of a two-month-old ban on political meetings. But The Crowbar, a mug through and through, was not yet done with his work...
...Soviet Union turned thumbs down on a counterproposal advanced by the United States. The American plan, brought in with British backing, urged the three powers to accept a double commitment to end tests and to establish the necessary international machinery to police such a ban...