Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They rounded up groups of rioters who had built roadblocks and had scattered rocks on the highways, and made them clear the roads. "We not only make them pick up rocks," said a British brigadier, "but make them carry the rocks half a mile. It works wonders." Heavy government censorship was lifted, and King Hussein thanked the Legion in a broadcast for restoring order, adding: "During the crisis we have identified faces and intentions which do not have the good of the country at heart." First reports said 18 had been killed, 100 wounded. One of those killed was Lieut...
Serious trouble erupted next day throughout the nation after the noon prayers in the mosques. Worshipers came storming forth, crying epithets against the Baghdad pact and the U.S., attacked emergency patrols of the Arab Legion with sticks and stones. A tight censorship closed down over the capital city of Amman, but some details got out. In the Arab half of Jerusalem, the U.S. consulate was surrounded and stoned, while the wives and children of the U.S. staff huddled in the safest place in the buildings: the stonewalled lavatories. At week's end El Maja-li's new government...
Main reasons for Gott's travels are to keep correspondents in touch with the editors' thinking, to meet the statesmen and other leaders with whom correspondents deal locally, and to go over such problems as communications difficulties (censorship in some areas), antiquated transportation, currency exchanges and quick visas. This means busy, schedule-filled days. Of this type of travel, Gott says: "It's stimulating...
...almost 20%. ¶ While the Roman Catholic bishops of the U.S. cracked down on "a rising tide of moral laxity in movies," and called for a revitalization of the aims and purposes of the National Legion of Decency, the Motion Picture Association vigorously protested to Congress that movie censorship had "seriously eroded" the constitutional guarantee of freedom of expression. ¶ In Detroit, Brace Beemer, radio's Lone Ranger for 20 years, turned a couple of six-shooters on the heroes of movie westerns because they are too "pure" and "slicked up." "It's a shame the way western...
...energy and ambition of any college newspaper is in its front page right-hand column: the lead story. To fill that column the easy way, a paper has merely to act as a conduit for the University News Office. Indeed, at some universities, (though not Yale), Administration censorship makes this the only way. The hard way is to dig up news independently, news which may embarrass university departments or student organizations, but for that very reason serves to dissuade these groups from making mistakes or acting arbitrarily. In the world beyond the ivied walls, this is the way free newspapers...