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...officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution and all its parts-including the First Amendment and the strict separation of church and state." The Catholic press across the U.S. charged Kennedy with taking a "religious test" for public office, raising an issue where none exists on division of church and state...
...murder of his wife. Last week, like any common criminal, Chief Obodo and four accomplices were hanged in Enugu prison after their appeal from the guilty verdict had been denied by the Privy Council of Eastern Nigeria. At least, that is what the villagers of Abakaliki have been told. None of them are prepared to believe that the majestic, awe-inspiring Chief Obodo is "properly dead" until his body is brought home from Enugu and they can test the evidence of touch and sight...
...meet this ambitious target in 1959, it will take its place among the new miracles of People's China - alongside the 330-lb. sweet potato and a marvelous plant that allegedly grows tomatoes above ground and potatoes below. But of all the wonders boasted by Red China, none can beat the economic snafu created by Peking's planners in the past year...
...herd only by slow stages. To speed the process, Prentice experimented with the technique of artificially inseminating a prize cow, surgically removing the fertilized egg, and implanting it in a scrub cow, which merely acts as a live incubator. The calf that is born is a prize animal with none of its mother's bad blood line. Scientists see a time when a farmer will buy a packet of fertilized ova, and in one year obtain from his scrub cows a herd of the finest cattle. To obtain the eggs in sufficient numbers, the donor cows would...
Than Lolita, no book in years has been more talked about in Great Britain, and none less read. In the U.S., Vladimir Nabokov's brilliantly written, shockingly decadent novel (TIME, Sept. 1) about a middle-aged man's obsession with a teenage nymphet has been riding high on bestseller lists for more than four months. But the British, who usually consider themselves more sophisticated in such matters than Americans, have turned the case into a major public brawl involving a seat in Parliament, the British obscenity laws, Novelist Graham Greene, and some of Britain's top literary...