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After years of jailing Bowery drunks until they sobered up, New York City police recently started letting the derelicts sleep it off in doorways and vacant lots. Reason: a new Legal Aid Society campaign to affirm that public intoxication alone is no cause for arrest without actual disorderly conduct. Were the bums pleased with this victory for humane treatment? Indeed not: they are clamoring for the good old days. "They want to get taken in," reported the Bowery Mission's Rev. Herbert Maynard last week. "They want to get cleaned up and get some food. If they...
...would any private institution be bound by his opinion, which could be overturned in court. If Brooke holds that the oath is constitutional, then he would just re-affirm present policy...
...same lawyer pointed out also that the Arizona oath which sought to "test" a person's loyalty differs greatly from the Massachusetts teachers' oath which merely seeks to "affirm" a person's loyalty...
Legal experts are pessimistic about Pedlosky's chances of winning his suit. Several professors of Law have predicted that the oath will stand in the Supreme Judicial Court. The oath is widely regarded as an innocuous one; it has no disclaimer and merely requires signers to affirm loyalty to the constitutions of the Commonwealth and the United States and to promise to "faithfully discharge the duties" of their offices...
...being identified as a civil rights stalwart. Ask him how long it will be before the Negro is accepted, and he will answer, "at least two generations." He advocates restraint and indirect charges as the most effective means of promoting race relations. For him, extremists on both sides merely affirm false notions about the South and the North and endanger the good will among moderates, liberals, and Negroes...