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PROTECTING ANTARCTICA, 1959. Twelve nations, including the U.S.S.R., France, Britain and the U.S., agreed to prohibit military bases and nuclear explosions in the Antarctic...
Flying into rain-soaked Manhattan, the President made a calculated surprise visit to address the U.N. General Assembly, whose members had just voted, 95 to 4, to endorse the nuclear nonproliferation pact. When it is signed by the U.S., Russia, Britain and 40 non-nuclear countries, the treaty will prohibit traffic in nuclear arms and war materiel between the atomic haves and havenots, and at the same time encourage the spread of peaceful know-how and materials. Although two atomically armed nations-France and Red China-will not sign the treaty, and such nations as India, Israel and West Germany...
...discussion groups in session 24 hours a day. Nearly every conceivable subject was discussed. People from every stratum of French society came from all parts of Paris to join in. The discussions were guided only by the principle painted everywhere on the Sorbonne's walls: "It is prohibited to prohibit!" The courtyard became a bazaar representing the whole spectrum of the world's left. Overnight, at least ten newspapers appeared-some mimeographed and others printed at cost by sympathetic outside publishers. Peking-style posters covered the courtyard walls. One poster read: "One must not confuse love and revolution...
...continued the court, "has a relationship to the protection of the individual motorcyclist from himself, but not to the public health, safety and welfare." So Michigan's motorcyclists no longer must use helmets. But the Rhode Island Supreme Court was "not persuaded that the legislature is powerless to prohibit individuals from pursuing a course of conduct which could conceivably result in their becoming public charges." So Rhode Island's riders must still wear hard hats...
Wall also argued that if a legislature can prohibit an act, it can declare counselling the commission of the act illegal as well. "Symbolic speech it may have been," he said, "but it was also clear incitement not to cooperate with the Selective Service System...