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...unique spectacle-one not confined to breakneck competition (see below). The chill of dusk in the Alps, the comfort of yellow lights in windows at that hour, the mountains them selves were a great spectacle to people who had come from afar (in the words of the Olympic Oath) "for the honor of our country and for the glory of sport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: For the Glory of Sport | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...first of these bills would strengthen the oath presently required of teachers demanding affirmation of support for the Constitution. The second would require presidents of colleges in Massachusetts to expel "Communists or Communist sympathizers from their teaching staffs...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Two Legislators Confident Red Teacher Bills to Fail | 2/3/1956 | See Source »

...first of the bills, H. 707, would complement the present oath required for teachers that demands affirmation of support for the Constitution, a provision that the person was not and never had been a member of the Communist party. H. 708 would require presidents of colleges in Massachusetts to expel "communists or communist sympathizers from their teaching staffs," on penalty of losing their charters...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Beer, Howe Attack Proposed Bills To Bar Red Teachers in Colleges | 2/2/1956 | See Source »

...assumption of the founders of the U.N. if we accept the Charter as an authoritative source. If we can't accept the Charter as an expression of the desires of the founders, whose word can we accept? The word of Alger Hiss, who has been convicted of lying under oath...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RED CHINESE AGGRESSION | 1/27/1956 | See Source »

...persuade the Blacks and their like-minded neighbors to give up plural marriage. But Vera Black would not be persuaded. In a steady voice, she read a statement to the officials: "Ours is a nation of equal rights before the law. Why should I be required to sign . . . any oath of any kind in order to keep the children I have honorably borne unless all mothers in our state be required to sign an oath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Polygamy Battle | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

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