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Wrote Yale Divinity School's Dean Luther A. Weigle: "The separation of church and state in this country was intended not to restrict but to emancipate the churches, not to impair but to protect religious faith. ... It does not mean that church and state, being mutually free, may not cooperate with one another. And it does not mean that the state acknowledges no God, or that the state is exempt from the moral law wherewith God sets the bounds of justice for nations as well as for individuals...
Failure to comply with this order may impair delivery of government checks, the spokesman stressed...
...next day he added: "I do not think that any man who professes any loyalty to you would so seriously impair your prestige and the prestige of the Government. . . . You and I spent 15 months building a bipartisan policy ... a permanent policy upon which the world could rely. Wallace destroyed...
...Security Council can apply economic or military sanctions against Albania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria if they continue to support armed aggression against Greece. If the international brigade moves into Greece, and Russia vetoes action under Chapter VII, the U.S. is prepared to take step two: invoke Article 51 ("Nothing . . . shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a member of the United Nations. . . ."). As a last alternative, the U.S. might take joint military action (i.e., send U.S. troops) to secure the border of Greece...
Possible moral for nightclub proprietors and bosses who work the help after hours: lack of sleep is bad for the victim's health, bad for his disposition, but does not necessarily impair his natural intelligence...