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...prickly instance is the "disclaimer affidavit"-a negative loyalty oath-that students must sign to get federal loans under the National Defense Education Act. Worse is the 15% ceiling on "indirect costs" incurred by universities conducting research under Government grants. In doing research for the National Institutes of Health, says Pusey, Harvard's indirect costs are about 28.5% of direct costs. Last year it spent an extra $1,000,000 out of its own pocket. Harvard and other universities are thus being forced to underwrite federal research...
Five years ago, a high school teacher who taught his class about Communism often had to fear assorted legal and social penalties; under Georgia law, for example, he might have been accused of breaking his oath to refrain from "teaching any theory of government or economics or of social relations which is inconsistent with the fundamental principles of patriotism and high ideals of Americanism." Last week the same teacher might have been at a summer seminar learning how best to present Communist history and theory to his twelfth-graders next fall. Growing up to the cold realities of the cold...
...positive loyalty oath would have been entirely justifiable, or so the College argued; but a disclaimer of belief was more than the government could rightfully ask, John U. Munro, 34, Dean of the College, expressed the feeling of many persons when he described the measure as "thought control." John F. Kennedy, 40 then a Massachusetts Senator, said the disclaimer affidavit was "worse than futile"; he felt subversives would not hesitate to sign it and that loyal citizens would feet insulted, perhaps even alienated...
...Souvanna presented his 19-man Cabinet to the King, and then took them across the muddy street to Vientiane's principal pagoda, Sisaket Wat, for the swearing-in ceremony. Sitting crosslegged on carpets before a huge gilded Buddha, the new Cabinet prayed while saffron-robed monks intoned the oath of office. Of Vientiane's estimated 60,000 people, only an apathetic 400 gathered to watch...
...qualify. It offers matching federal funds to states for health care for the aged out of general tax revenues, thus costs the wealthy taxpayer more than the poor to support. Its opponents point out that its eligibility requirements practically force the aged to take a pauper's oath and that, in any case, it has not worked out in practice: of 24 states that have adopted it, only six have it in full operation, and 90% of all recipients live in only five states...