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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that government has a right to demand cooperation from its citizens presumes that the citizens have a moral obligation to cooperate with legitimate government. This was something generally presumed in Marshall's time, but today it is something that Communists deny and others have lost sight of. Witnesses, then, who refuse to answer legitimate questions are challenging the foundations of political society itself...
...Nigguh,' he said, 'I thought you ought to know the sun ain't nevuh set on a live nigguh in this town.' So I wrapped my constitutional rights in Cellophane, tucked 'em in my hip pocket and got out of sight. And, believe me, I caught the next train out of there...
...singers got off the Cunarder Saxoma at Greenock, Scotland, lined up on the pier on the River Clyde and began to sing (Loch Lomond). They kept singing all the way across Britain, Holland, Denmark and Germany-in crowded auditoriums, sight-seeing buses, third-class railway carriages and even on the streets. They had their share of crises, including-at Scheveningen, Holland-the loss of the conductor's white dress waistcoat (two local tailors provided a new one in exchange for a pair of tickets). Everywhere they are stirring up waves of good feeling and applause. Salt Lake City...
...Shall he [or she] go for it?" had been asked every week since the program's first contestant drew in sight of the big jackpot. By the time Bible-quoting Mrs. Catherine Kreitzer and Opera Lover Gino Prato stopped at $32,000. newspapers were explaining (often with contradictory results) just how much a final winner would have to give the Government in taxes. Most figurers agreed that if a contestant won a $64,000 jackpot, his additional $32,000 would be pared down to a mere $10,000 by the cruel revenooers...
...Joseph Wood Krutch would let even the mountain lions and the rattlesnakes keep their own skins. In The Voice of the Desert there is only one creature he mercilessly skins alive-man, the destroyer of nature and of the natural balance. "To almost everything except man," he writes, "the sight of man [is] the most terrifying of all sights...