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...Society is to give the Junior Fellows three years of freedom to study whatever (and whenever) they please, and to provide reciprocal stimulation by bringing the members together at thrice-weekly meals. The stipend attached to a Junior Fellowship is extremely generous, the requirements connected with it practically nil...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: Society of Fellows | 5/9/1957 | See Source »

...highly cheering to advocates of income-tax limitation, because the Constitution says, in Article V, that Congress "shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments" upon request of two-thirds, or 32, of the state legislatures. Nonetheless, for the foreseeable future, the prospects for a tax-ceiling amendment are nil (even aside from the fact that at least seven of the 33 legislatures later canceled their memorials). Most members of Congress are well aware that, while it might make economic sense, drastic income-tax limitation would 1) annoy a lot of voters as a gift to the more highly paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: To Limit the Bite | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

However, by the tradition of American criminal law, Kimball pointed out, "a man is innocent until proven guilty." Further more, he added, "the evidence that Oppenheimer is a Communist is practically nil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Professor Renews Oppenheimer Attack | 4/17/1957 | See Source »

...Justice Department has been diligent in prosecuting violations of civil rights: it has not. Nor is it to argue that the President has exhibited the warm creative leadership that he could so effectively focus upon the national Negro problem: his leadership in this regard has been virtually nil. But what we do say, and what we have tried to show by various case studies in this special supplement, is that the nation's racial wounds can be bound up without malice and with success--if those involved in the delicate art of integration constantly have in mind both principle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gradualism and The Negro | 10/3/1956 | See Source »

...Congress sent to the White House a bill authorizing the Secretaries of the three armed services to commission doctors of osteopathy as military surgeons. Chance that any will be appointed: nil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Jul. 30, 1956 | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

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