Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East-West scientists' conference on nuclear-test detection. Time: this week. Place: Geneva. But last week, in a surprise note phrased with deliberate ambiguity, the Russians threatened to boycott the conference unless the U.S. agreed in advance that the meeting's aim is a nuclear-test ban...
...Each company carefully guards its new gimmicks and products, and a chemist from one firm having lunch with a chemist from another is sure to be suspect. But once a product is out, everyone grabs greedily for it. Bristol-Myers worked for nearly six years to research its Ban roll-on deodorant; after it appeared, it was copied by nearly a dozen firms...
...value, and even necessity, of the arts is accepted as axiomatic, and serves as a clear example of the way in which Putney uses the community as an instrument of persuasion and education. Jazz was for a long while virtually non-existent, not because of any ban, but because the prevailing school opinion looked down upon it as a lower art form, if an art at all. But despite any opposition, there is hardly a single alumnus for whom classical music is not an important part of life. Music has been important principally because of the school's dynamic musical...
When it appeared in France early this year, the book was a runaway bestseller (65,000 copies sold), generating shock waves of conscience. It was banned within weeks. Four leading men of letters-André Malraux, Roger Martin du Gard, François Mauriac, Jean-Paul Sartre-buried their political differences to dispatch a "solemn petition" to France's President René Coty asking the government to lift the ban on The Question and "condemn unequivocally the use of torture, which brings shame to the cause that it supposedly serves." Still illegal, sales of The Question have since soared...
...most of Perón's ardent followers in Argentina would be cleared. A ban on political activity was lifted for 34,791 Peronistas. Another 6,500 got the right to resume labor union activities-just in time for an all-out fight for control of the General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.). A new government interventor for the C.G.T. was appointed last week by Frondizi and instructed to hold free elections within 90 days. Peronista-dominated unions were favored to win a close race for control of the huge (3,000,000 members) organization...