Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHURCH AND STATE. A New York City case attacks as unconstitutional the property-tax exemption enjoyed by religious organizations. The petitioner argues that this tax break violates the rule of separation of church and state...
...many instances, that search is not difficult. Some men have been drafted at a meeting of only two out of five members of a board; yet the law requires that no fewer than three be present. A San Francisco lawyer, Joel Shawn, 33, recently persuaded a federal judge to rule for his client because a majority of the draft-board members lived outside the district, a violation of the Selective Service rule that a man should be drafted only by his neighbors "if at all practical...
...Viet Nam, the fighting man is seldom out of reach of a psychiatrist; each combat division has its own. There are also two fully staffed mental health clinics that accept the disturbed patient in a most unmartial atmosphere. Military ceremony and the rule book are dropped at the door. Says Colonel Thomas Murray, chief Army psychiatrist in South Viet Nam: "Some of our psychiatrists are the most improbable military guys: soft, flabby, unexercised." In this deliberately demilitarized ambience, the soldier's recovery begins...
...stanch the flow by making the mark more expensive; that is the sort of basic decision traditionally left to the new government. Instead, the Bundesbank freed the mark to be traded at just about any price that buyers were willing to pay. The IMF cooperated by ignoring the rule that governments must maintain their currencies within a 1% margin above or below the fixed-exchange rates...
Behind all the maneuvering is the scheduled airlines' growing fear of the increasingly popular cut-rate charter lines, which offer high-season round-trip Atlantic fares for as little as $150. The scheduled carriers are particularly disturbed by abuses of the "affinity rule," which decrees that only members of bona fide organizations can take charter flights. Recently, a group calling itself the "International Order of Old Bastards" arranged a charter trip from the U.S. to Mallorca. Unamused, Pan Am executives complained to the CAB; meanwhile the flight was canceled...