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...Oath: Picking candidates for election to the National Assembly, Poujade made them take an oath, "If I am elected I solemnly promise never to take a position on an issue which has not been approved by the Central National Committee. If I betray this oath I promise to submit my physical and moral person to the punishments reserved for traitors...
...York's Chancellor Robert Livingston, representing the law that preceded, underpinned and nourished the Constitution, administered the oath to the big, embarrassed man in the brown suit with eagles on its metal buttons. Then George Washington, painfully striving to strike exactly the right pitch on history's tuning fork, delivered on April 30, 1789 the first address by a President of the United States to the Congress. "The propitious smiles of Heaven," he said, "can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained . . . the sacred fire...
...offense (maximum penalty: three years' imprisonment) to file a fraudulent national income-tax return, Italy's taxpayers last week kicked off their annual game of "Guess My Income" with local community tax collectors. The rules of play are simple and timehonored: 1) in public declarations made without oath, each taxpayer makes a guess at his income; 2) the municipal tax collector, sizing up the taxpayer's visible possessions, then makes his guess anywhere from two to thirty times as high and racks up a tax bill accordingly; 3) after long argument and inevitable compromise...
Four years ago, Finance Minister Ezio Vanoni created a stir by requiring all Italians to make out annual tax returns. Roberto Tremelloni, Finance Minister in the Scelba government, went even further. Tremelloni introduced a bill which would for the first time 1) require an oath in making out. returns, and 2) exact penalties for defrauding the government. His bill got nowhere. Not only was it resisted by Neo-Fascists and Monarchists, but it was repellent to the big-money backers of the ruling Christian Democrats. The bill languished in committee until one day last month, when Fellow Traveler Pietro Nenni...
...school classroom in Lubbock, Texas one afternoon this month, 17 teenagers gravely went through a ritual familiar to Boy Scouts the world over. After chorusing the Scout oath (". . . I will do my best ... to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight"), they settled down to an afternoon of studying the silent signals used on hikes. What distinguished the meeting was the fact that few of the boys were likely to put into practice what they learned in the classroom: they were all members of a troop of physically and mentally handicapped Scouts...