Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian nuclear tests was still clicking the Geiger counters last March when the Russian propaganda machines began grinding out a high-priority party line. The message: the peace-loving Soviets had voluntarily suspended nuclear tests, called on the U.S. to do the same. Under heavy attack from such fervent ban-the-bomb groups as SANE (National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy), U.S. officials doggedly went ahead with the U.S.'s own long-scheduled test series in mid-Pacific, but the President finally agreed to a year's test suspension beginning Oct. 31 provided...
Last week the Geiger counters clicked furiously again as Western spotters counted four separate Russian nuclear explosions "north of the Arctic Circle." After the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission announced the tests, Moscow radio said the Russians had been "forced to resume." The U.S. ban-the-bomb groups were strangely silent. Knowing that it takes 18 months for the U.S. to prepare for a full-scale test, U.S. atomic experts were certain that the Russians began planning for the new test series even before they finished the last. "More and more," wrote the Christian Science Monitor's U.N. Correspondent William...
...control clinic in London. At its opening, crowds yelled that she was immoral, threw brickbats. But London's women made the clinic a success. Marie Stopes founded others up and down Britain. Gradually the stone throwing and vilification stopped (though the London Times for a while slapped a ban on ads for her books and clinics, kept it in effect until 1953). Thus far, Married Love has sold more than 1,000,000 copies in a dozen languages. And sexology has marched far beyond the outposts of Marie Stopes. In later years she was more often shocked than shocking...
...Soviety Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin replied Moscow would agree to halt tests only if the United States and Britain accept an immediate ban "for all time." He accused the Western Powers of doing all in their power to "barricade and block the way" toward agreement...
...Seventh-day Adventist hospital, Choi gradually lost his paralysis. Last week, when the ban on correspondents' trips to Quemoy (TIME, Sept. 29) was lifted, Choi limped over the hill from the hospital and headed for the docks, after sending a plaintive note of apology to a friend: "I will take care of myself and try not to be foolish...