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...gaily colored lengths of cloth that northwest India's women wear over their heads-when they can afford them. Many women wear them only on their wedding day, then carefully put them away for future generations. Every Bhil woman would get one, announced Tantia, if she would swear by Kaladev that she would never hide her face again...
...current bill, proposed by Senator Mario Umana, would circumscribe wire tapping with strict judicial limitations. An Attorney General or district attorney wishing to institute a wire tap would be required to apply to a superior or supreme court justice for an official order. The applicant would have to swear that the wire tap was likely to obtain specific evidence of a crime. Opponents of the measure have claimed that it would impede police investigation. But it is difficult to see how the act would hinder the conduct of a legitimate investigation. The wire tap authorization would be kept strictly secret...
...bills would not only compel colleges to expel Communists and Communist sympathizers from their teaching staffs, but would also amend the State's Teacher Loyalty Oath. The amended Oath would force all teachers to swear they are not, nor ever have been, members of the Communist Party...
Back in newspaper work, he became editor of the New York Aurora two months before his 23rd birthday, lost the post two months later. Young Whitman's writing was prissy and preachy. His first and only novel was a hack temperance tract. Walt's stock advice: "Swear not! Smoke not! And rough-and-tumble...
From an Onassis associate in Cairo came another denial of the whole business. Ali Alireza, brother and business partner of Minister of Commerce Mohamed Abdullah and a key figure in the negotiations, said: "I can swear no such payments were made . . . Mr. Onassis made his offer directly to His Majesty's government ... So whom would he bribe, or why? Suppose he bribed two, even three men. The agreement still needed the Cabinet's unanimous consent . . . Certainly Onassis couldn't bribe men like these with a million dollars...