Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Norwegian Parliament repealed a constitutional clause excluding the Jesuits from the officially Lutheran country, thus ending a 142-year-old ban that once also included "other monkish" orders and Jews...
...International Amateur Athletic Federation slapped a ban on the Spanish whirligig style of javelin throwing, which had been producing phenomenal results all over Europe (TIME, Oct. 29), by adding a sentence to the javelin-throwing rules: "At no time after preparing to throw, until the javelin has been discharged into the air, may the competitor turn completely around so that his back is toward the throwing...
...thing, however, is certain. Too much radioactivity is disastrous to animal life. It is clear that the United States is in no position to play with nuclear weapons when no one is certain of the exact safety factor. The wisest course of action under these uncertain circumstances is to ban the testing of the high-powered hydrogen bombs which are the really significant producers of radiation hazard...
...Urged members to set an example of interracial brotherhood in their daily lives, but declined, by a vote of 340 to 159, to endorse a proposal hailing the Supreme Court's ban on segregation in the public schools as being "in harmony with Christian convictions," because the church had no right to "differ with or support" the court, which acts, they maintained, purely on legal principles. By this decision, which President Franklin Clark Fry formally opposed, the group becomes the first major U.S. religious body so far to withhold its blessing from the court's ruling...
Though it varies from one newspaper to another, the ban on racial identification is usually lifted only when the story 1) is favorable. 2) involves a wanted felon, or 3) would make no sense otherwise, e.g., the report of a racial clash. The result: Negroes are seldom identified when they figure in crime stories...