Word: belief
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Only a few of the P.O.W.s have ever made a mark in the postwar Army. Johnson, always a deeply religious man, emerged with a heightened faith in God and an almost mystic belief in human will power. As a soldier, he says, he learned the value of "controlled impatience...
Most of the trouble can be traced to the fact that the U.S. Constitution forbids religious test oaths for any public official. Maryland's constitution does the same-but it also orders officials to declare "belief in the existence of God." In 1961, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld Maryland Notary Public Roy R. Torcaso, who refused to sign such a declaration because he was an atheist. The religious requirement, said the court, "unconstitutionally invades freedom of belief and religion...
...denied equal protection while on trial for killing his wife (TIME, Oct. 22). Since Buddhists do not believe in God, he argued that members of his faith were automatically excluded from his jury. Even though no Buddhist would-be jurors were involved, the court upheld Schowgurow and voided the "belief in God" requirement for jurors throughout the state...
...declared that Maryland has done nothing legal in its courtrooms for 98 years. But even without retroactivity, the decision brought to a halt every current criminal case in the entire state. Did it also void every current indictment issued by grand juries that had been forced to swear their belief in God? On Oct. 21, the court said yes in the case of a 16-year-old Seventh-day Adventist charged with rape-thus tossing 3,000 cases back for reindictment, 1,000 of them for retrial as well...
Lately, the belief has grown that it is no longer possible to become a millionaire, that debilitating taxes, savage competition from big corporations and the sating of consumer appetites have slammed the door to great wealth. Wrong on all counts. The U.S. still offers countless opportunities for the man who wants to accumulate a personal net worth of $1,000,000 or more-and thousands seize them every year. The number of U.S. millionaires, reports the Federal Reserve Board, has swelled from 40,000 in 1958 to nearly 100,000 at present. How do they do it? In a variety...