Word: exempt
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Clay had claimed that he was exempt from the draft because he was a minister of the fanatic Black Muslims. Yet in March 1966 he had proudly listed his occupation as "world's heavyweight champion," styling himself a minister of Allah only last August, six months after he had been classified 1A by his Louisville draft board. The court found the sequence more than coincidental...
...said, there is a "real possibility" that it will want to make the requirement easier. At present, the only way out is a medical excuse. About only way out is a medical excuse. About 50 students in the College are exempt because University Health Service doctors have verified that they have strephosymbolia, a rare disease which makes it impossible to learn foreign languages...
Members of the university community, it seems to me, ought to respond by channeling cash to such groups as the "Committee of Responsibility," 131 State St., Boston. This is a tax-exempt national organization which is bringing some of the more seriously injured Vietnamese children to this country for surgery. Although many of us are convinced that the Vietnam situation calls for much more radical steps than hospital action. I think that all of us ought to be willing at least to do that much. The Rev. H. Paul Santmire Lutheran Chaplain, Harvard-Radcliffe
...church and state in the U.S. is so secure that for millions of Americans the question arises only in the limited context of education." I am one of millions who see the separation of church and state as something yet to be achieved. Religion, operating as a tax-exempt enterprise with some $77 billion in assets, has managed to inject its taboos and mores into statute and ordinance in every state...
...effect. This might take another six months or more. The head of the A.M.A.'s legal department, for one, has already announced that it will argue against the regulation. The closemouthed National Geographic Society has declined to comment, but society officials said earlier that loss of its tax-exempt status might force a cutback in its scientific and educational activities. For the other side, cheers were led last week by former IRS Commissioner Mortimer Caplin, who has long fought to tax the taxexempt. "The business community is elated," he said. "This is a sound decision...