Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHEN TIME'S Correspondent John Mecklin asked a Baghdad bookseller why he had no books about Iraqi Premier Nuri asSaid, he was told: "If somebody said he was good, nobody would buy the book. If a book said he was bad, the police would ban it. So nobody tries it." Later, over a card-table dinner of "roofed fish" (a Baghdad speciality) in Nuri's home, the old strongman told more about himself than the West has ever heard before. For the Arabian Nights' story of the Iraqi strongman, Nuri asSaid, a blue-eyed Arab, see FOREIGN...
...doctor, the irritation in many medical circles has become acute. Proponents of the Colorado plan declared that the corporate practice of medicine was a step toward socialization of medicine. But the house of delegates, confident that its disapproval of corporate practice is already a matter of record, refused to ban it specifically. Principal (though unstated) reason: such a ban would be unenforceable...
...argued that the 280-acre lot was already zoned for manufacturing, and what was the difference between an oil derrick erected for a movie or one to drill? Furthermore, modern drilling avoids the noise and mess that blighted oil-happy Los Angeles in the '20s and brought a ban on drilling...
Some of these fears were calmed by Deputy Defense Secretary Donald A. Quarles, who told Senators that he had fought the ban on installment buying when it was under discussion while he was Air Force Secretary. But now, as Wilson's aide, he felt that the directive would not cripple air procurement if it were interpreted liberally. Reason: Wilson left himself the power to exempt certain yet-to-be-named weapons from the ban...
Evidently the Radcliffe administration is not yet convinced that students would like to see the ban on full joint membership lifted. Several weeks ago Dean Lacey, whose office as Dean of Residence includes dealing with problems of undergraduate activities, said that there is "no immediate crisis" for joint activities since "no organization is beating at our doors for joint membership...