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Then the Maryland Court of Appeals reversed the murder conviction of a Buddhist named Lidge Schowgurow, who successfully argued that he had been denied equal protection of the laws while on trial for killing his wife His jurors, he noted, had to swear to do their duty "in the presence of Almighty God." Since Buddhists do not believe in God, members of his faith were theoretically excluded from the jury. Though no Buddhists were even considered for his jury, the court up held Schowgurow-and voided all such jury oaths in Maryland...
...Washington bank. Simple pleasures are the best, after all, aren't they?" She noted that "John McHugh and Trumbull Barton, whose Staten Island party for Margot and Rudy last spring made history, have gone off to Venice to visit an 87-year-old girl chum. They swear she's still fascinating. Maybe it's the canals." Trish Hilton's mother, Mrs. Horace Schmidlapp, said Suzy, turned up at her own party in "some red-hot Galitzine pajamas with no neck at all. There was an awful lot of Mummy showing because, holy mackerel, when that Galitzine...
Today, many Nigerians of the region practice the deadly juju; some still swear only on hunks of iron in fealty to their blacksmith god, Ogun. But the tradition and skills that created the masterpieces are lost. What remains in Africa is enshrined in Nigeria's museums, a testament to past perfection and proud accomplishment illuminating what for centuries was considered the very heart of darkness...
...ministerial tones, Murphy then recited the Klan oath: " 'I most solemnly swear that I will forever keep sacredly secret the songs, words and grip . . . regarding which a most rigid secrecy must be maintained ... I will never yield to bribe, flattery, threats, passion, punishment, persecution, persuasion, nor any other enticements whatever coming from or offered by any person or persons, male or female, for the purpose of obtaining from me a secret or secret information. I will die rather than divulge them, so help me God.' Did you swear to that oath...
...turned out that the barren ewes were browsing on estrogenic plants. In India, Dr. Sudhir Nath Sanyal thought he had found just what the subcontinent needs in an extract from the common pea, Pisum sativum, but his results have not been confirmed. Some Europeans and the American Shoshone Indians swear by an extract from a species of gromwell or stoneseed (Lithospermum), but scientists have not been able to find the magic in it-if there...