Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MULTITHANKS FOR A FINE PIECE ON NEWSMEN IN CARACAS [Feb. 3]. HOWEVER, THERE IS ONE INACCURACY WHICH MUST BE STRAIGHTENED OUT BECAUSE IT REFLECTS UNFAVORABLY ON CORRESPONDENTS. THE LIQUOR BAN WAS DEFEATED TOO, AND AT LEAST TWO TIME AND LIFE OPERATIVES CAN TESTIFY THEY ATTENDED POST MORTEM SESSIONS ON REVOLUTION WITHOUT ANYBODY'S THROAT OUTDRYING...
...news broadcasts into Russia, 2) give the U.S. some minimum uncensored access to Russia's controlled press and radio and television to match the uncensored play Russia gets daily in the U.S., or 3) stop Russia from declaring much of its country off base to U.S. visitors, a ban that is reciprocated by the U.S. in regard to Russian visitors...
...hours of his arrival, could not return until after the government was overthrown. Within half an hour of Dictator Pérez Jiménez' flight, the ten-year-old censorship was scrapped. Nonetheless, newsmen still had a complaint: to quell street rioting, the new government slapped a ban on liquor sales that proved far harder to crack than censorship...
...walkout during an operatic performance in Rome (TIME, Jan. 13), Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas was set down for the Rome opera season. The ban on Manhattan-born Singer Callas came from the implacable Rome opera authorities, who were heartily seconded by Rome's prefecture. Ostensible reason: the mere sight of Maria onstage again might incite Rome's already outraged opera fans to riot...
After they had initially opposed a recommendation to ban boarding entirely, other college coaches in the area welcomed Weiland's modification of that idea. The Varsity coach said he had no intention of eliminating body checking altogether. "I definitely believe there is a place for body checking in the game of hockey, but I'd just like to see it out in the open...