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...Oath. The remainder of the prosecution's case was short and sharp. FBI men and other witnesses confirmed important details of Rowe's story: the bullet that killed Mrs. Liuzzo, and shell hulls found on the highway, came from a revolver found in Gene Thomas' home:* the Klansmen were placed near Selma at the time of the crime through testimony from the trooper who had written the traffic ticket...
Other specific issues which have set off protests have included the refusal of a professor to sign a loyalty oath at Brooklyn College, inflated prices at the cooperative bookstore at Boston University, the refusal to allow non-Baptists on the Board of Trustees at Wake Forest College in Illinois, a censorship of modern poetry at Oregon, and a proposed rent equalization at the University of Pennsylvania. Yalies have demonstrated in favor of coeducation, and students at Penn, Trinity, and New Mexico State are seeking more lenient social regulations...
...reign of terror against Negroes. They tarred and feathered men and women-white and black-whom they suspected of illicit sexual relations, and lynched, mutilated or lashed hundreds of others. They tortured Jewish shopkeepers, whom they accused of massive international financial conspiracies; they published a spurious Knights of Columbus "oath" that portrayed Roman Catholics as villainous conspirators against the U.S. Their bedsheets became robes emblazoned with ornate embroidery, and they invented a whole new thesaurus of Klanonyms. There were the Kleagle and the Klabee, the Kladd and the Klaliff, the Klectoken and the Klexter, the Klig-rapp and the Klokan...
...effect of this would be to outlaw literacy tests, poll taxes (which are still retained for State and local elections in five states) and a few other vestigial qualifications such as Vermont's freeman's oath...
...Holy Koran echoed in the sumptuous banquet hall of the garish new six-story hotel that stands almost alone in Pakistan's still abuilding capital of Islamabad. While Britain's Prince Philip and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aram looked on, Pakistan's chief justice pronounced an oath's solemn words. Outside, a 21-gun salute boomed across the green Potwar Plateau. So last week Mohammed Ayub Khan, 57, was inaugurated as Pakistan's first elected President...