Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...tell more about a culture than the big issues that engross most journalists. Reverence for the flag, for instance. Outside of the emerging na tions of Africa, he recently wrote, scarcely any other country shows such a high regard for that symbol. U.S. laws, he was surprised to find, prohibit use of the flag for ornamentation. So when he once looked for a box of candy with a flag on it to send to his mother in Britain, storekeepers regarded him as "some kind of pervert...
...fact is that there are hardly any amateurs left, at least by Olympic standards-which rule out even athletic scholarships (a ban that is obviously ignored) and prohibit any financial remuneration whatsoever from athletic ability. The trouble with that philosophy is that it ignores the labor and expense necessary to produce a Jean-Claude Killy, who has been training full time since...
...quite what it says. "As far as the Davis Cup team is concerned," says U.S.L.T.A. President Robert J. Kelleher, "the color of their clothes will be up to their captain." Moreover, many U.S. tennis clubs back up the longstanding tradition that "whites are right" with written bylaws that specifically prohibit color from their courts...