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...Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...
...Sportsman. To most Wisconsin readers, free and vigorous Bill Evjue (pronounced Ev-you), 66, was the best guarantee that Madison's newspapers will stay that way. Born in Wisconsin of Norwegian stock and educated at the University of Wisconsin, Evjue became managing editor of the Journal at 29. In 1917, when the paper attacked the late great Senator Robert M. LaFollette for his pacifism, Evjue quit to found the Times. (He later edited LaFollette's Progressive on the side.) The Times has been expressing Evjue's strident personality ever since. From the start, Evjue faced a financial...
...only two things unconstitutional: 1) "the setting up by law of an official church"; and 2) "discrimination between religious bodies." The founding fathers, said the bishops, were God-fearing men who knew that "national morality cannot long prevail in the absence of religious principle." They never intended to prevent "free cooperation" between government and organized religion. Any contrary interpretation is "an utter distortion of American history...
...ship's exterior by a complete removal, by sandblasting, of every inch of paint, plus the planing off of a half-centimeter of all deck plank. And, to clinch matters, the Radiological Monitors found that even when radioactivity was not registering on ordinary instruments there might still be "free plutonium" present, the "most insidious poison known...
Though frankly pro-American, the Zeitung is free to criticize fumbles by U.S. officials, and occasionally does. Some of its biggest troubles are caused by American officials who are still hazy about the paper's status. Recently a U.S. Army officer informed the Zeitung that he was sending a man around to take away the telephone switchboard. It was orders, he said; German papers had to give up their Army communication equipment. "But we're not a German newspaper," Editor Fleischer protested. "Oh, yeah?" scoffed the officer. "With that name...