Word: outlawing
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...expense of Nepal. To protect himself and his elite colleagues, Tenzing set up a Solo Khumbu branch of the Nepal Climbers' Association, a union of Sherpas he heads. In retaliation, the Nepalese Sherpas started a rival union, put a blunt demand before the Nepal government that it outlaw all such foreigners as Tenzing from plying their trade in the country. But the last word would probably come from expedition leaders themselves. Said Australia's Peter Byrne, who has just arrived in Katmandu with eight Darjeeling Sherpas to help him seek the Abominable Snowman: "An expedition which spends...
...recent elections, right-to-work laws went down to defeat in five of the six states where they were proposed. But they are far from a dead issue. Already, unionists are getting set for a drive in Congress to outlaw state laws that forbid the union shop. The arguments over such laws have ranged all the way from the position of Labor Secretary James Mitchell that "they do more harm than good" to the stand of General Electric Chairman Ralph Cordiner, who says his company takes right-to-work laws into consideration as a plus factor when locating new plants...
However in Kansas and Idaho the proposals to outlaw union shops were winning. The vote is close in both states...
...concentration camp, he goes to Africa to be near the great beasts-"the image of freedom and space"-and is horrified to see "this gigantic, clumsy natural splendor" being slaughtered to extinction "just to keep the world supplied with billiard balls and paper knives." He circulates a petition to outlaw the killing of elephants, and soon has made himself the standing joke of French Equatorial Africa. Only two people sign his petition: a drunk (Errol Flynn) and a prostitute (Juliette Greco). A missionary tries to reason with him. "You're fed up with men, so you've gone...
...Right-to-work laws forbid union membership as a condition of employment, thus outlaw union shops, thereby go one step beyond the federal Taft-Hartley Act's no-closed-shop provision. Eighteen states, mostly Southern and Midwestern, already have R.T.W. laws...