Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only way to keep the U.S. Constitution safe, Anderson concluded, is by constantly referring back to its spiritual premises: "There is no essential magic in its construction which preserves it inviolable against the corrosion of false doctrine or careless thinking ... It is only from the knowledge and appreciation of the deep roots of their vital heritage of political freedom that the people of a society are able to derive the wisdom needed to safeguard it for those who come after them...
...principle, by U.S. Communists and their friends. Since the day the Supreme Court decided that her refusal to answer was legal, a stream of Communists and people with Communist associations have faced down courts, grand juries and congressional committees with what Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. calls "those 14 magic words": "I refuse to answer upon the ground that it might tend to incriminate...
...through the Fifth Amendment when she was arrested in California as a key accomplice of two U.S. Communist fugitives (TIME, Sept. 7). This was the last straw for Attorney General Brownell. He set his Department of Justice lawyers looking for a way to limit the abuse of the 14 magic words without damaging the solid legal right behind them. Last week Brownell announced the results of their study: a proposal to compel the testimony of witnesses by giving them immunity from federal prosecution...
...York's very bigness has enabled it to accomplish near-miracles of specialization in courses of study. Its adult education classes (currently attended by 75,000 grownups) offer everything from ceramics to amateur magic. Its four special high schools, open only to elite students who qualify by stringent entrance exams, are educational show places which offer high-level training for aspiring engineers, chemists, biologists, physicians, musicians and artists. Its trade and vocational schools offer a more dazzling variety of study. One whole high school is devoted to instructing would-be garment workers, another turns out printers, another automobile mechanics...
...Fountain of Youth), NBC last week dropped a $5,000,000 blockbuster in the form of 28 new or revamped radio shows. The man tossing the bomb (target: public apathy about radio) is NBC's go-getting Vice President Ted Cott, 36, who arrived at the "Magic 28" after three weeks of all-out cerebration with his NBC associates...