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...public opinion is apparently willing to tolerate legislation and practices inflicting those consequences upon persons who similarly utilize another portion of the Constitution. This is as irrational as if a university were to expend great effort and sacrifice in establishing a magnificent library; but then were to expel any student who read a book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES: THE FIFTH AMENDMENT | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...spite of telephone threats. Principal D. J. Brittain Jr. stood faithfully by his Negro charges. He threatened to expel their tormentors, but neither he nor his faculty found proof enough to do so. Last week the Negroes stayed away from school in protest. The frightening question that faces them: whether they will ever be allowed to go back to the Clinton high school without suffering even more abuse than they already have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Racists' Day | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...Actor Portman is a natty fraud who has largely invented a dashing military past and a sexually timid duffer who has been pinched for molesting women in cinemas. Actress Leighton is an angular, sniffiy spinster who loves the fraud whom her dragon of a mother exposes and tries to expel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 5, 1956 | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

...Communist) Party. They had two important items on their agenda. The first was to reinstate in the party hierarchy Wladyslaw Gomulka, 51, onetime party leader who, because he had refused to castigate Tito, had been disgraced and imprisoned by Stalin. The second item was more audacious: a motion to expel Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, famed Polish-born Soviet soldier who had acted as Stalin's (and Khrushchev's) proconsul in Poland since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Sovereignty or Death | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

...Prophet is Samuel, aging and fallible last of the theocratic judges who ruled Israel until the 11th century BC The King is Saul, chosen by God, through a reluctant Samuel, to expel the Philistines and elevate Israel to "a nation among nations." Though young King Saul won peace and freedom for his countrymen, he was never able to win Samuel's trust or break the old prophet's hold upon a primitive, God-haunted people The story of the conflict between king and kingmaker, man and God, has been dimmed by divergent accounts in the Old Testament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Undoing of Saul | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

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