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...skies of Korea roared a force of B293 to plaster the once-untouchable North Korean port of Rashin "(see WAR IN ASIA). Throughout the period of his command, MacArthur urged the bombing of Rashin. On Aug. 12, 1950 he did bomb it, but further attacks on Rashin were forbidden by Washington. "It was a question of the risk involved," Secretary Marshall explained later, "in an operation so close to the Soviet frontier...
...last week, the U.S. Government was thinking of taking away what it had given. In Manhattan's granite-columned Bar Association Building, an advisory panel of the Salary Stabilization Board held hearings to determine whether stock options are inflationary, and can therefore be forbidden under the Defense Production...
...this way monotheism led Mohammed to ethics. Like the Jews, he interpreted the First Commandment so strictly that Moslems were forbidden to make any kind of picture or "image," and the ban holds today. He forbade the use of alcohol, and the majority of Moslems have obeyed this prohibition through the centuries. (Today, most well-to-do Moslems who have social contact with Westerners do drink.) Mohammed sternly forbade sexual promiscuity, but for males this was greatly modified by permitting men to have as many as four wives, to divorce them at will, and to keep concubines in addition...
...patients whose ulcers are still active, there are such conventional horrors as poached eggs and milk toast. But for quiescent ulcers, there is a wide range, from broiled beefsteak, boiled lobster, venison and wild duck to cheesecake and pumpkin pie. Still on the forbidden list (along with strong drinks): pork, nuts, baked beans, clams, corn, cabbage, tomatoes, radishes and cucumbers...
...Forbidden Texts. François Rabelais was born in Touraine around 1495, the son of a country lawyer. He was placed, in early youth, as a novice in a Franciscan monastery, and later he was ordained a priest. A crack student, François soon got his hands on some forbidden Greek texts. Enraged, the good brothers snatched his books away. Outraged, François pulled strings and had himself transferred to the cultured Benedictines, who encouraged the study of Greek...