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...evening the TV camera dwelt fondly on a long succession of performing celebrities: Jimmy Stewart, Bob Hope, Marlene Dietrich, Lena Home. But as Cinemactors Margaret O'Brien and Walter Pidgeon were announced, the camera gazed tactfully elsewhere, in deference to the stars' M-G-M contracts, which forbid their appearance...
...zone they had launched a drive for twelve million German signatures on a petition for an "all-German unity" government. A huge sign in Berlin set forth the Communist case (see cut). It read: "Attention! You are now entering the American sector. American democracy rules there. They want to forbid the will of the people. But no power in the world can forbid you to sign. Don't be robbed of your fundamental democratic rights. Sign up here...
...stop building telescopes? Do we forbid the extension of knowledge? Do we retreat to some safe, underground existence where we can barricade ourselves against our fears and the unwelcome intrusion of new ideas...
...changed its consistency and injected it with Vitamin A. They had reduced the size of its water particles so that, when heated, it sizzled and foamed instead of popping and spattering. The only difference (besides its cheaper price) was its color. The dairy lobby had persuaded most states to forbid or restrict the sale of colored oleo; it had prodded Congress in 1902 to impose a 10?-a-pound tax on the colored product...
This fact hardly dismayed the general or his supporters. But they did have to face up to some practical political problems. One of them was created by Douglas MacArthur's position. As a General of the Army on active service, he was screened by Army regulations, which forbid his making political speeches or engaging in any political activity. His gold-braided cap was not actually in the ring at all, but at its edge. He could pull it out at any time-as he had, in effect, after running second to Tom Dewey in Wisconsin's 1944 primary...