Word: exemption
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard world of conflicting ideas, science concentrators have been uniquely sheltered. Exempt from Natural Science courses, and--except for Biochemical scientists--from tutorial instruction also, the College's future scientists are required to take only a few non-technical courses...
Last week, in special seminars anticipating the sovereign status West Germany will shortly enjoy, U.S. Army units all over Germany were busy teaching the conquerors to become guests. As aliens subject to German law, G.I.s will no longer be exempt from German excise taxes or the compulsory German auto insurance law. If they live in a requisitioned house, they will have to get out within a year. Unlike the Germans themselves, the G.I.s will not be subject to property or income taxes; nor will they be subject to criminal prosecution in German courts (though the German police will have...
...first decisions under its new policy to exempt small firms from the Taft-Hartley Act (TIME, July 26), the National Labor Relations Board last week split on where the line should be drawn. Last summer, when NLRB first announced that it would narrow its jurisdiction to exclude small retailers, utility companies, etc., and concentrate on companies having an important impact on interstate commerce, there was no dissent. But when NLRB last week showed what it meant by turning down six of eight union requests for federal supervision of bargaining elections,* the decision divided the five-man board on straight party...
Last year's freshman had to have at least two Bs, one C plus, and one C to rank him in the top half of his class and exempt him from the draft. Three C pluses and a C would place a member of 1956 in the upper two-thirds, while the same grades would put a junior into the necessary top three-quarters...
...Billy Graham surely showed a singleness of goal. In 1943, he toyed with the idea of joining up as a G.I., decided against it, instead volunteered for the chaplains' corps. Later he withdrew from the corps, saw no war service at all (as a minister he was draft exempt). After a year as pastor of a small basement church in Western Springs, Ill. (the active congregation more than doubled while Billy was there), he joined an organization called "Youth for Christ," founded in Chicago to combat delinquency among teenagers. As a Youth-for-Christer, Billy traveled all over...