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Although NSA finally sent more than 800 students to Europe on its low cost tours, it ran into trouble early when the S. S. Svalbard, slated to carry 600 waiting students to Europe, was declared "unsafe" and was forbidden to sail by the U.S. Coast Guard...
...full minute, the audience in the visitors' gallery applauded (although applause is forbidden and almost never heard in U.N.'s sedate halls). Malik vainly pounded his gavel, furiously threatened to expel the public from the chamber...
...Measure of Maturity. Wu Kuo-cheng was born in 1903 in the mountains of Central China, grew up in Peking, where his peasant-born father was director of military training for the Imperial Chinese army. In Peking's yellow-roofed Forbidden City, Dowager Empress Tzu-hsi (also known as the "Venerable Buddha") still occupied the Dragon Throne, and China still lay in the heavy torpor of her past. While Wu was in school, Sun Yat-sen and his followers rudely yanked at the queue of Chinese tradition, dethroned the Manchus and established the Chinese Republic...
...back to the front. Just as Lambert was boarding a bus for the airfield, he was handed an unexpected, unwelcome and undeserved order from Colonel Marion P. Echols, press chief for General MacArthur. For filing dispatches giving "aid and comfort to the enemy," able, conscientious Newsman Lambert was forbidden to return to Korea. So was United Press Correspondent Peter Kalischer, for the same harsh reason...
This week Czech and Rumanian radio listeners could hear music, plays and satires forbidden by their Communist masters-as well as the voices of men long exiled. These forbidden broadcasts came from a Radio Free Europe transmitter deep in Western Germany...