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...death strip, which, however, is usually lethal only at night: it is the "500-meter zone," where anyone is shot after dark. Beyond that is a "security zone" dotted with watchtowers that report the movements even of farmers in the fields. Beyond that is a five-kilometer (threemile) Sperrzone (forbidden zone), dotted with control points that check travelers' passes, available only at Communist Party headquarters...
Moralizer to Observer. Born in London at a time when Jews were forbidden to serve in Parliament, the Chronicle was founded by a onetime sailor in Nelson's fleet, Isaac Vallentine, who filled the four-page, twopenny Chronicle mostly with "religious and moral instruction" for the 30,000 Jews then living in Britain. By the end of its first year, it was reporting, with undisguised satisfaction, the appointment of a British Jew to public office (high sheriff of Devon...
...Government-owned plane. It belonged to Imperial Airlines, a "nonsked" outfit with a "fleet" of four planes. The Army got hooked up with Imperial by a dismal series of events. By law-as enacted by Congress under pressure from commercial air companies-the Army and the other services are forbidden to transport troops by military aircraft in the continental U.S. on the theory that the airlines need the business. The law also permits nonscheduled airlines such as Imperial to bid for service contracts and because the penny-skimping nonskeds can generally underbid the bigger airlines, they usually get the contracts...
...Engagement rings and dowries are out. Funeral services may no longer be pompous, lengthy and expensive as in the past, but should be brisk, cheap and austere; among other things, the custom of bowing three times before the funeral altar will be streamlined down to a single bow. Newly forbidden is the use of wooden, disposable chopsticks in Korea's 11,676 restaurants and teahouses-the government wants to conserve the country's dwindling timber reserves; instead, the use and reuse of plastic chopsticks is urged...
...soiled laundry, past U.S. customs. But official acquiescence is outflanking civil disobedience. This year both Henry Miller's hot-panting Tropic of Cancer and D. H. Lawrence's lukewarm Lady Chatterley's Lover are sold openly in the U.S. But what is no longer forbidden loses half its charm. For the first time since Petronius wrote his Satyricon to titillate Nero, were the printers of the unprintable in danger of insolvency...