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Last week the court issued two more decisions-one allowing defendants to waive reindictments, thereby avoiding delay in trial, the other permitting prisoners to use the religious oath as a challenge to jury convictions that are still open to appeal. But judges, too, must declare belief in God. Are nonjury trials before such judges also illegal? Answers to such questions are yet to come-and they are eagerly awaited by Maryland's 5,600 convicts...
Tynan might be right. Certainly millions of English-speaking people use it every day as verb, noun and adjective, as an expletive, an oath, and even a term of endearment. But, as Tynan quickly learned from the uproar that followed his pronouncement, there is still a considerable gap between private usage and public sensibility. The novel may reflect life, but life does not yet completely imitate fiction...
Jones said he understood that he was the first one to refuse to sign the disclaimer at Texas. He had previously declined to teach at the University of California in 1950 because California then demanded a similar oath...
...list of 266 organizations which are subversive under the oath's definition is attached to each copy of the Texas oath. Jones considered it "ridiculous" that certain of the organizations be included on the list. "My favorite one is the Chopin Cultural Center," he said...
...persuade a local board member that participation in a March to protest the War in Vietnam is not evidence of a "draft evasion mentality" or reason for induction; and cautiously advises a nervous law school student on his "legal rights"; that's all I can give you under oath, but I'll tell you frankly...