Word: iii
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...state aid to a religious institution, in violation of the 14th Amendment." He cited the 1948 case of McCollum v. Board of Education, in which the Court, by a 5-4 decision, ruled that a "released time" program for the religious training of public school children in Champaign, III., was unconstitutional...
Richard Nixon blundered in announcing that he would defend Quemoy and Matsu. The American people are not willing to risk the start of World War III over these two piles of rocks on the doorstep of Communist China! Berlin and Formosa, yes; Quemoy and Matsu...
...prestigious New York Times, which has not endorsed a Democrat since 1944, when it recommended a fourth term for Franklin Roosevelt after opposing him for Terms II and III, came out for Kennedy in a limp and stodgy statement: "In the field of foreign policy . . . despite their sharp dispute over Quemoy and Matsu, the two candidates are in substantial agreement . . . But Senator Kennedy's approach . . . except for his momentary blunder suggesting intervention in Cuba . . . seems to us to be more reasoned, less emotional, more flexible, less doctrinaire, more imaginative, less negative." On domestic policy a Democratic President will have...
Specifically, the picketers will demand immediate action on civil rights embracing the provisions of Section III of the 1967 Civil Rights Act, repeal of the Senate fillbuster rule, and powerful new legislation. Article II gives the President power to call out Federal judges to hear appeals in charges of discrimination in registration. However, this power has, so far, been unused...
Those present included everyone from Robert Frost to the ghost of General Burgoyne. President Pusey, James Phinney Baxter III '17, the first Master of Adams House, Bernard Ballyn, associate professor of History, and Frost addressed the ceremonial dinner at Adams House...