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Overture. In Van Nuys, Calif., after a stranger in the municipal building told him that he would have to appear in court to answer a traffic summons, Milton Wiegman, 27, replied: "I don't . . . take that from any two-bit civil-service employee," learned too late that he had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 14, 1953 | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

Housewives in six New England states were surprised last month to meet a new breed of bill collector-Internal Revenue Service agents, who traveled from door to door with a sometimes embarrassing question: Had the occupant paid his federal taxes? If the answer was yes, the canvassers asked for proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The New Commissioner | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

Alami allows his boys to run their own life. Each house of ten students elects its own leader, who takes a seat on the Boystown ruling council. The boys tend their own gardens, conduct their own religious services. Each noon, a young voice rings out the muezzin's summons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Something for Ammi | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

"In my opinion," the Senator concluded, "there is no place for one-man investigations, or for peremptory summons to inquisition. We can and we must search out Communism and fight it to its death--but we must do this with the weapons of democracy, democratically applied."

Author: By George S. Abrams, | Title: Symington Says Fear May Curtain America's Freedom | 6/10/1953 | See Source »

Appomattox. In Trenton, N.J., three years after they had issued him a speeding summons, state police received a $15 check and a note from Robert A. Caldwell of Proctor, Ark.: "I can't stand it any longer. Here's your money . . . The highway patrolman who arrested me was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 18, 1953 | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

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