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...University of Michigan's College of Literature, Science and the Arts*-and into a mess. A scandal over a private slush fund to entice top athletes to Seattle had got Washington's all-too-famous football team kicked out of the Pacific Coast Conference. A loyalty-oath requirement imposed by the legislature was demoralizing the teachers and scaring off bright recruits to the faculty; such was the state of timidity that Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer had been banned from a campus appearance. Nor had the school's topside support always been wholly inspiring: the president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: Iron Man at Washington | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

...Dallas' Love Field, Moyers hurried aboard Air Force One to join the new President. A Secret Service man, who did not recognize him, barred him from the forward compartment where Lyndon Johnson was about to take the oath of office. Moyers scrawled a note -"I'm here if you need me"-and sent it in. In seconds the forward door swung open, and Moyers was there to witness the swearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: L.B.J.'s Young Man In Charge of Everything | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

...memorable experience. First his combat boots were washed in rice wine from a ritual jar into which the flesh of a sacrificial buffalo had been dipped. Then, as the beast's severed head and tail lay near by, a montagnard sorcerer summoned divine spirits to witness an oath of friendship, and a rebel officer swore allegiance to Saigon Finally, to seal the pledge, two smiling girls presented Ky with a tray of cop per bracelets, and he was handed a symbolic weapon-a U.S. Army M-l carbine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Surrender | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

...bright red robes of the Owegbes swirling about her, Ada Kika Emese strode to the witness stand, placed her right hand on a wedge of metal and swore her oath in the name of Ogun, god of iron. In the sweltering court room, citizens in sprawling white robes and gold-embroidered velvet caps listened intently to her testimony, their attention never flagging as they slipped off their sandals and methodically picked their toenails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigeria: The Power of Juju | 9/3/1965 | See Source »

...intimidating atmosphere of a station house, vigorous police grilling often takes on all the aspects of a star chamber. "The trial," observes one jurist, "is too often merely a review of that interrogation." Even if the defendant later recants a confession in court, it is one man's oath against those of three or four detectives. A distinguished federal judge said recently: "We'll never be fully civilized until we eliminate this from our society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE REVOLUTION IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE | 7/16/1965 | See Source »

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