Word: censorable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Verwoerd has feared to risk unfavorable world opinion by openly muzzling the recalcitrant English press. But his flanking movements have had their effect. South Africa's free press must follow a zigzag obstacle course past ten punitive national statutes. The government's Special Branch, which serves as censor in everything but name, combs every issue of every paper for statutory violations. A government commission was appointed in 1950 with the avowed purpose of examining the country's newspapers-but its members often acted like thought police. The commission once rebuked an English press reporter for writing more...
...holds-barred campaign. Attention was called to the fact that Gonzalez had spent World War II as a draft-deferred military censor, while Goode was a twice-wounded marine, the winner of both the Bronze and Silver Stars in the Pacific. After Gonzalez boasted of his perfect attendance record in the state senate, Goode dryly reminded him that he had somehow managed to miss 70 roll calls. Moaned Gonzalez: "I never figured they'd check that...
Roses to the "self-appointed" censor, W. D. Maxwell of the Chicago Tribune [Aug. 25], who revised the list of bestsellers to exclude the products of smut-rakers...
...Trib's self-appointed censor was Editor William D. Maxwell, 61. Recently hospitalized, Maxwell waded selectively through his paper's bestseller list, was scandalized by The Carpetbaggers and Tropic of Cancer. "I found language in there that you wouldn't hear in a men's locker room," said Maxwell, whose father was a Methodist gospel singer. He fired an order to Book Editor Robert Cromie. Henceforth, said Maxwell, the Trib's bestseller list, which is based on sales reports from bookstores, will include only books that pass Maxwell's muster...
...contention that the chairman of the commission would become a censor of broadcasting, an idea advanced by the broadcasting lobby, does not apply, because the President's plan does not make a dictator of the chairman. The reorganization program, proposed by James H. Landis, aims to relieve members of the commission from the delay and inefficiency caused by its present obligation to handle petty matters. The delegation of routine decisions to small panels of commissioners or to staff members will not remove the commission's power to restrain the chairman on important matters...