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...Fortas is a target again. This week's LIFE says that while on the Supreme Court Fortas became involved with Louis Wolfson, a corporate adventurer who is serving a one-year sentence for selling unregistered stock. Three months after taking his oath, says LIFE, Fortas received $20,000 from the Wolfson Family Foundation, ostensibly for advising the foundation on philanthropic affairs. Fortas returned the money after Wolfson was indicted on criminal charges; the reason given by Fortas' former law partner was that the Justice had been too busy with court affairs to do anything for the foundation...
...IMMUNITY SQUEEZE: In recent years, some local and federal prosecutors have begun to grant immunity from prosecution to an increasing number of criminals-whether they want it or not-to make them break their oath of omerta and talk. Normally, any witness can refuse to talk on the grounds that his answer may incriminate him. But the Fifth Amendment only permits a man to remain silent if his words might be used against him in criminal court; there is no constitutional guarantee to absolute silence. Thus, if a man refuses to talk after a grand jury agrees to remove...
...years ago, Calkins led another crusade. He headed a drive to repeal an 18-year-old loyalty oath that Cleveland had required of all its school employees...
...McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick) who are restless, cynical and chafing under the discipline of the house whips. They spend a lot of their time sneaking swigs of vodka and planning romantic acts of rebellion. After a particularly strenuous caning by the head whip, the three take a blood oath: "Death to the oppressor!" They turn a school military exercise into a rout by threatening to bayonet an officer, and later sabotage the school's Speech Day ceremonies by detonating a smoke bomb and gunning down faculty, parents and students as they stream out of the auditorium. The film...
Subversive Interpretation. As Illich told it to New York Times Religion Editor Edward B. Fiske, the outcome in the musty Vatican basements was a standoff. He refused to take an oath of secrecy, refused to answer questions un til a list of charges had been presented to him. When the "charges" finally appeared, they turned out to be a list of 85 questions under such headings as "Weird Conceptions about the Clergy in the Church," and "Subversive Interpretation Concerning the Liturgy and Ecclesiastical Discipline." Sample question: "How do you respond to those who present you as petulant, adventurous, imprudent, fanatical...