Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cause for Alarm? The stop order did not mean that every batch of vaccine will be fully retested. Instead, said Dr. Scheele, teams of experts from his service will fan out to the five laboratories still making the vaccine (California's Cutter Laboratories remained under ban and under separate investigation), go through them, examine their records, inspect their equipment and methods, and try to decide on this basis whether the vaccine they have shipped or are ready to ship is safe...
...Brattle loses on the state level, Halliday plans to appeal to the Supreme Court in Washington, where he is confident of winning because of a recent court decision reversing a ban in a New York case...
...could: 1) offer to disarm to any limit the other powers would be willing to go to under strict regulation; 2) propose to ban mass-destruction weapons if others would agree to cheat-proof supervision and inspection; 3) suggest that the United States would agree with others and with adequate guarantees of compliance to limit the proportion of key resources that could be used for arms so that more could go into peaceful goods; 4) reiterate the right of civilized peoples everywhere to governments of their own choosing, at free elections, by secret ballot and without outside interference; 5) emphasize...
When Strongman Juan Perón decided to lift Argentina's 1936 ban on legalized prostitution as part of his campaign against the Roman Catholic Church (TIME, Jan. 10), his decree authorized provincial and local governments to license brothels in "suitable places." Last week the Buenos Aires municipal council, pioneering in this unplowed field, made public its plans for building a $6,516,000 "suitable place" near the geographical center of the nation's capital. The city's only authorized red-light district will consist of two austere rows of classic structures, 32 in all, with columns...
When Albert Einstein got word of Hiroshima, he seemed unwilling to believe it. "Ach," he said sadly. "The world is not yet ready for it." As A-bomb led to H-bomb, and the atomic arms race began, he lent his prestige to almost any ban-the-bomb society that asked his sponsorship. Einstein's otherworldliness grew more pronounced. "The wish to withdraw into myself," he wrote, "increases with the years." But though his political forays were often Utopian, his scientific imagination still soared. He had unified the concepts of space and time, matter and energy, gravitation and inertia...