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Cambridge Mayor John J. Foley yesterday took the oath as Register of Probate and Insolvency for Middle sex County, but will retain the may orally at the same time. He may keep both jobs legally...
...Hippocratic oath, which bids a doctor hold as "holy secrets" anything that he learns in his practice, is not binding when disclosure might prevent harm or danger' to others, wrote Surgeon Edward Clifton Dawson in the British Medical Journal. A big majority of polled doctors and laymen agreed that if a railroad engineer suffers from epilepsy but refuses to tell his employers, the doctor should do so. The margin was much narrower in favor of his telling the police the name of an abortionist that he had learned from a patient...
...church is eligible for property-tax exemption under California's controversial Levering law unless its board signs a special oath of loyalty to the Government. Last week the First Unitarian Church of Berkeley, Calif. announced that it would pay taxes (more than $2,200 a year) rather than sign and condone what is regarded as a violation of church-state separation...
...many people therefore, he has not atoned for his sin. The jury's judgment was based to no small extent on the flat statement by Hiss that he never was a Communist. Since his trial, another witness-Nathaniel Weyl -who broke with the Communists has stated under oath that he personally saw Hiss paying Communist dues several times...
...McCarthy had refused to face the Gillette-Hennings subcommittee, which investigated him in 1951-52. He would not be placed under oath or subjected to examination. Instead, he charged the committee members with "dishonesty"-in letters, said Watkins, issued "from the safety of his office...