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...judge supports this decision as well as the gentlemanly tradition that British Cabinet ministers-unlike civil servants-should be exempt from surveillance save in dire national emer gencies. Concludes Denning: "It would be intolerable to us to have anything in the nature of a Gestapo or Secret Police to snoop into all that we do, let alone into our morals...
...more willing to lend it on the increasing value of his education." Under USAF's plan, a student may borrow up to $4,000 from any bank in the organization's expanding network. While regular bank loans can cost up to 8% in true interest, nonprofit, tax-exempt USAF can secure loans repayable at as little as 5% and in no case more than 6% simple interest. And the student does not have to begin repaying the loan until five months after graduation...
...Depravity. The Gnostics of early Christianity, who claimed to possess a "secret wisdom" left them by Jesus, argued that they were exempt from provisions of moral law, and for so believing were expelled from the church. The British monk Pelagius, who died around 418, in effect contended that man could achieve salvation by his own actions apart from God's gift of grace; he was formidably countered by St. Augustine of Hippo, who emphasized the utter depravity of man and the absolute necessity of Christ's death at Calvary for redemption...
...Italian Renaissance buildings huddled on a sweeping, 500-acre campus, Emory has 4,200 students, one-third of them women. Graduate students set the pace, and sports are played down, giving Emory a bookish sobriety. Last fall it beat down in the courts a Georgia law threatening its tax-exempt status if it integrated. This fall it expects to enroll half a dozen Negroes, including Hamilton Holmes, the University of Georgia's first male Negro graduate, who will become Emory's first Negro medical student...
...Building materials and production machinery, much of which Canada buys from the U.S. at the rate of some $250 million annually, will no longer be exempt from sales tax-a move calculated to give Canada an extra $70 million in revenue this year...