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...beginning to look a little drawn, his sinus trouble has not bothered him in London's unusually dry, bright weather. His stomach (he once had "most of the insides cut out" as a result of the Argonne gassing) is well enough so that he can sneak an occasional forbidden Martini or cigarette...
...Bennett and his new servant, traveling through the hills, took by surprise a village where the forbidden "rope festival" was about to be held. In this rite, believed to make the fields fertile, the sacrificial victim had a sporting chance; he had to ride a forked stick down a rope stretched from a 500-ft. cliff to the fields below...
...years, Ford employees from janitor to vice president have been forbidden to smoke on the job. Old Henry did not approve of smoking, thought it made workers inefficient. Last week, six months after Old Henry's death, Young Henry lifted the ban-for all but women office workers...
...replied Siqueiros: he was being tailed by a detective all the time, and 20 feet behind the detective lurked a party comrade. Usually, when he was arrested, he was treated as Mr. Siqueiros, a prominent artist who just happened to have some silly political quirks. But after leading a forbidden May Day parade he was beaten by cops until his body was covered with welts, thrown into solitary, and fed on what slops he could catch in his hands when the guard upturned the bucket. He spent a year in jail that time, and another on parole...
...that is, if you and I fail, here in Europe, or in America, or anywhere in the world-slavery has come again. Manuscripts will be banned, books will be burned, and writers and readers will once again be sitting in concentration camps for having thought dangerous ideas or uttered forbidden words...