Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army said the ban was necessary because its policy did not allow debate "on such a controversial topic." A statement from the Navy added that it feared arguing this topic "would make the Navy liable to misrepresentation...
...nine talk-filled years, the U.N. has attempted to work out a plan for disarmament and the prohibition of atomic weapons. Though Russia unceasingly proclaimed its desire to "ban the bomb," it would not consent to a foolproof system of inspection and controls. Then, five weeks ago, Russia's Vishinsky quickened a few U.N. pulses by hinting that Russia might agree to a British-French plan for a step-by-step suppression of nuclear weapons. To U.S. experts, Vishinsky's seeming concession still looked like a plan with a built-in veto against thorough inspection-and the stalemate...
Menon's "solution": there should be an immediate, worldwide stoppage of arms manufacture while East and West worked out both a disarmament agreement and a complete ban on nuclear weapons. Menon argued that if the world's present rate of nuclear test explosions is maintained, the air would become so radioactive that "it will be impossible for the human race to survive." His proposal had one surprising effect: in rare concert, the U.S. and Soviet Russia both voted to shelve...
CHICAGO, Nov. 5-Louis Radzienda, a Boxing official for both Illinois and the National Boxing Association, today suggested a federal government ban on professional boxing for at least a year "If nothing is done legally" to investigate "alleged hoodlum elements...
...group plans to investigate all phases of undergraduate life, ranging from underclass curriculum, admissions, and the dormitory system, to perennial undergraduate gripes over parietal rules, compulsory chapel, and the car ban. These rules have gotten a "new look" for years, but in its present frame of mind, the University wants assurances that they are sound...