Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France; they did not disobey orders at Pearl Harbor or Valley Forge . . ." Airman Wheeler was convicted. His civilian defense attorney, Manhattan Lawyer Murray Sprung, sprang to his feet, pleaded for leniency: "Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat/ Or hurl the cynic's ban?/ Let me live in my house by the side of the road/ And be a friend to man." Appealed Attorney Sprung, his voice hoarse with emotion: "Gentlemen, be a friend to Airman Wheeler...
...linking any ban on nuclear tests with an enforcible ban on further output of nuclear arms, wrote Bulganin, the West is "condemning in advance" any chance of agreement. Russia, he made plain, is willing to play only if the nations agree to ban the tests, ban the bomb-and, of course, ban any inspection system too. With a cynical show of amiability ("With the best will in the world we cannot see ..."), Bulganin proceeded to accuse the British of perfecting "the most lethal and destructive" weapons, under cover of "endless talks on the desirability of disarmament," and to charge that...
...Verwoerd (pronounced Fairvoort) boasts that not one of his seven children has ever been bathed or put to bed by an African servant. Like most stout Boer nationalists, he holds that God intended that races be kept apart. The church clause in the new law gives him power to ban mixed worship in a white residential area if he thinks that the Negroes are causing a nuisance, and if he has the consent of the local municipality...
...coverage that most news organizations considered inadequate and impractical. In conference with a group of newspaper, magazine and broadcasting representatives invited to discuss the situation, Dulles modified his previous proposal (TIME, May 6) for pooled coverage by a limited number of "responsible" correspondents and offered to lift the ban for ten to 15 newsmen for a six-month trial period. His aim: to restrict China coverage to the twelve* news-gathering organizations that had correspondents on the mainland before the Communists took over...
...nude show at nearby Rock-port's Bearskin Neck, began peppering the local newspaper with impassioned protests ("As an artist I love what God created, and I never want to see pants on plants"). At week's end hard-pressed Festival Chairman Ken Gore announced that the ban was only against "questionable nudes," and none of that category had shown...