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...even though he told his draft board that he was an athe ist. He was denied that classification, and in August was charged with being a draft dodger. Though raised as a Jew-his Orthodox grandfather was a C.O.-Shacter claimed to have his own re ligious faith, based on the belief that "man's mortal soul is the most perfect element in the cosmos." He declared that he could not serve in the Army, because to kill another person "is a sin that no man can endure." But he also admitted that "I do not believe...
...into the capital, someone limned the graven letters in red chalk so that they stood out sharply on the grey granite. The words were spoken 550 years ago, at a time when the Bo hemians, who now are known as Czechs, were trying to win a measure of re ligious and national autonomy within the Holy Roman Empire. But they remain a poignant reminder of a de termined people's long search for freedom...
DIRECTIONS '65 (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). The purposes and intentions of Protestant re ligious retreats...
Long argued, bitterly fought by Spanish conservatives. Spain's new Law of Re- ligious Congregations, passed three weeks ago (TIME, May 29), still lay last week on the desk of tousle-haired President Niceto Alcala Zamora ready for signature. Long as he could President Alcala Zamora postponed the deed, sent messages to the Cortes protesting the section forbidding primary and secondary education by monks or nuns, insisting on the right to use the mediating power that is his under the Constitution. An open break threatened between Zamora's adherents and the Socialist followers of bag-jowled Premier Manuel...
...States' rights; as Alabamians, they believed in individual determinism on all legal and moral questions; as Primitive Baptists, they believed they were supernaturally foreordained from before the laying of the foundations of the earth to do as they damned pleased on all questions whatsoever?social, moral, legal, and re- ligious." Slave-owners but not lords of a manor, the Vaidens lived simply but thought of themselves as aristocrats...