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Though braver than TV, radio still intends to stay friends with convention. In putting on last week's opening Stan Freberg Show (Sun. 7:30-8 p.m., CBS Radio), network executives eased their hypertension by scissoring out topical references to the Gaza Strip (it might offend Arabs and Zionists) and a simulated H-bomb explosion over a fictionalized Las Vegas (it might offend the State Department, the Atomic Energy Commission, the governor of Nevada, or somebody's aunt in Iowa). "Now I know what killed Fred Allen!" Stan Freberg cried, and complained of "panicky network people and panicky...
...Park, L.I. (pop. 10.500) passed what seemed to be a most innocuous proposal: to post in the classrooms of its elementary schools a version of the Ten Commandments. The version was to be the same as that used in nearby Huntington since 1954. It was so worded as to offend no particular faith, did not involve any religious instruction. But no sooner had the decision been made than the area was in an uproar...
...office in India-Menon won a handsome majority. By last week Indian politicians who once publicly scorned Menon were holding their tongues. Despite its democratic aspirations, Nehru's government still has some of the characteristics of an Oriental court. In such a court, wise men do not lightly offend a potential successor to the throne who is beloved both by the prince and the people...
...first governor of its new protectorate, the French sent the revered Marshal Louis Hubert Lyautey to Morocco. Lyautey's policy: "Do not offend a single tradition or change a single habit." He ordered French towns built alongside but separate from the Moroccan towns, put all mosques off limits to unbelievers, and met the Moroccans as friendly equals. When he sent the Foreign Legion to subdue rebellious chiefs, he warned his commanders: "Always show your force in order to avoid using it. Never enter a village without thinking that the market must be opened the next...
Will they be able to resist temptation? Will the honor of the corps be upheld? Will the vows of the spirit hold firm against the fevers of the flesh? Will Hollywood knowingly offend millions of Roman Catholic moviegoers and throw $2,500,000 down the drain...