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...staff is aware of subtle changes in manner that also belie his age. At 69, Dwight Eisenhower is less set in his ways than he was when he first took the Presidential oath of office at 62. He has become at once more pragmatic and more flexible and adaptable-even foxy in his skillful handling of Congress and his new-found warm relations with the press. He has become more and more at ease in office, while making it clear that he would be more than happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hometown Birthday | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Faithful to this rigid ritual, few writers busy paying for their swimming pools and Thunderbirds with Private Eye cash could take the facetious oath of Britain's Detection Club-that their heroes "shall well and truly detect the crimes presented to them . . . not placing reliance on nor making use of Divine Revelation, Feminine Intuition, Mumbo-Jumbo, Jiggery-Pokery, Coincidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: These Gunns for Hire | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...chiefly because of his tax and budgetary experience, a talent sorely needed in the muddled affairs of the School Committee. At first, Barnes concentrated his campaign on this point, but he found it a deadening issue and has changed his ground to the National Defense Education Act loyalty oath and the future of Rindge Technical High School. He is particularly disturbed about the implications of NDEA for local school employees; under sections of the Act pertaining to guidance and foreign language training, the jobs of people hired by local school boards can become dependent upon willingness to sign the loyalty...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Man Around the Campus | 10/23/1959 | See Source »

...same time, they unanimously passed a second motion recommending preparation of several opinions on the loyalty oath. The Council will select one of these resolutions next Tuesday night to send to Senator John F. Kennedy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Hits Pusey's NDEA Stand | 10/22/1959 | See Source »

...much abused one. The pledge-making mania has not stopped with the Boy Scouts and Sunday School but has found its way into prospective legislation in the form of a bill now before the New York Assembly which proposes that public school teachers be required to take an oath of allegiance to the Constitution. The purpose of the bill is to eliminate communistic and other extreme propaganda threatening our present system of government. Harvard CRIMSON, April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seeing Red | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

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