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Flagged Spires. Suddenly, the Moslems' long restraint snapped. Screaming like men who have been too long silent, Moslem mobs flooded the narrow lanes of the casbah. From under thin mattresses and floor boards came hundreds of forbidden flags of the F.L.N. rebels-green-and-white banners bearing a red crescent and star. In bright green paint, slogans were splashed on any and every convenlent wall: "The F.L.N. Forever," "Long Live Ferhat Abbas," "Long Live Moslem Algeria...
...winter is forbidden till December...
...announcement by Pierre Salinger, President-elect Kennedy's Press Secretary, that the private life of the next President will be forbidden territory for reporters, comes as a bitter shock and a profound disappointment...
Fail-Safe. At sea all hands take exquisite pains to keep the encapsuled atmosphere habitable. Navy chemists know that animal fats break down during cooking and give off eye-irritating chemicals, so ship's cooks use vegetable fats instead of lard. Bleaches are forbidden in the ships' laundries; they release chlorine that would contaminate the atmosphere. Aerosol shaving creams are prohibited because of their Freon gas. Ship's doctors must guard their clinical thermometers carefully; if broken, their mercury might evaporate into deadly fumes. But as important as the air itself is the attention to the inner...
...recent decision of the Faculty committee on Athletics has forbidden the Crimson Rugby Club to take any spring training trips next April...