Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WEST GERMANY The third Man In West Germany, this is an election year, and the telltale signs could already be detected up and down the Rhine. That rugged defender of NATO, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, battling fiercely for a third term at 81, called for a ban on the H-bomb without even mentioning safeguards, and labeled the Soviet plan to pull troops out of Central Europe a helpful step to reduce international tensions. Out to prove his "flexibility" in the cause of German reunification, the Chancellor invited the Russians to hold trade talks with West Germany, but also was hoping...
...plans are being delayed by Western companies, worried that continued unrest will hurt their investments. Arabian American Oil Co. is cutting $10 million from its projected $80 million fund for construction and expansion this year, and other firms may follow suit. Because of Suez Canal closure and Saudi Arabian ban on exports to Britain and France, Aramco's daily flow is down to less than 700,000 bbls. v. more than 1,000,000 bbls. one year...
...film's distributor, threatened to sue the exhibitor if he showed the cut version, but he hung out his "For Adults Only" shingle and began running it anyway. Roman Catholic Bishop Russell J. McVinney of Providence urged his flock to abide by the Legion of Decency's ban against the picture even in its censored version, but the box office reported that it had all the business it could handle...
Last week the Miami Beach city council was considering a proposal to hold the zoning line, prohibit hotel building north of the Eden Roc. Established hotelkeepers, fearful of competition, argued for the ban; merchants, fearful of atrophy, argued against. As the argument raged, Hotelman Sam Cohen (Casablanca, Sherry Frontenac) announced his own solution: to save time, he was tearing down the old Macfadden-Deauville, put up in 1925 at a cost of $500,000, replacing it with the new Deauville at a cost of $25 million...
...this year's Nieman Fellows has drawn the wrath of the State Department for entering Communist China in defiance of the U.S. Government's ban on travel there...