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Hard-Headed. In Champaign, Ill., John L. Franklin had given up trying to raise asparagus after three years, built an asphalt drive across the patch, this spring discovered sprouts cracking through the pavement...
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School boards and schoolteachers all over the U.S. were worried. The Supreme Court had ruled 8 to 1 for Unbeliever Vashti McCollum in her suit against the school board of Champaign, Ill. The court ruled that the board must stop making religious instruction available to its pupils in the school building and on school time. It also laid down the ruling that religious instruction in public schools was a violation of the First Amendment. Now the question was: Would the court also hold that religious education during "released time" was unconstitutional...
...religious education? Or should the state support such education at all? In the white marble temple of the U.S. Supreme Court last week, a new engagement was fought in this running battle. Atheist Vashti McCollum had a final hearing in her suit to stop the board of education in Champaign, Ill. from allowing religious instructions at her son's school (TIME...
...year-old argument lasted about two hours in court. Some Saturday soon the justices will decide in private conference whether the "wall of separation between church & state" has been breached in Champaign...