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Brokers are forbidden to deal in stocks unregistered with SEC. But in one instance, Partner James Gilligan (who retired last April) deposited 4,700 unregistered shares of Guild Films Co. stock out of the block of 63,000 he had purchased into the account of Reilly, then head of the Floor Transactions Committee. "Upon learning of the purchase," SEC said, "Reilly immediately sold the stock at a profit of approximately $2,300." Six months later, Reilly's committee refused to punish Gilligan for dealing in the stock...
...Communists are as restrictive of goods as of people. They have forbidden the sending of medicine or canned food from the West. The mails are so slow that a small package mailed by a West Berliner to an East Berlin relative a few blocks away may take weeks to be delivered...
...CHURCH DISCIPLINE. The council is expected to revise the already lax rules that govern fasts and Friday abstinence from meat. The canon laws that govern the antiquated Index of Forbidden Books will be brought up to date; some bishops have asked that the Index be abolished. The council may recommend that greater attention be paid to science and modern teaching methods in seminaries. Canon law relating to impediments to marriage will probably be reformed-although the church is likely to make a strong reaffirmation of its stand against artificial birth control. Presumably, the council will take a stand against sins...
...peasants during the three bitter years, beginning in 1958, of the Great Leap Forward, which was aimed at giving China an industrial base greater than that of Britain. From Li's neat office in Embracing Kindness Hall-a two-story Manchu dynasty palace in Peking's Forbidden City-have poured the blueprints and directives that marshaled China's millions into antlike armies to dig canals, mine coal and iron ore, and work the soil of 24,000 spartan people's communes. It has been clear for some time that the Great Leap was really a leap...
...kanpus, who in the past had been the grim overseers of the communes, were now forbidden to "arbitrarily set output targets, mechanically arrange crop acreage, or rigidly introduce technical measures." As a final insult, the kanpus were told to seek guidance from "wise old peasants...