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Businger said his bill would require the person seeking to register to swear "under the pains and penalties of perjury" that he was actually living at a given residence. This would satisfy all requirements of domicile, according to Businger...

Author: By Leo FJ. Wilking, | Title: Officials Attend Student Appeal To City Election Commissioners | 9/28/1973 | See Source »

...Shakespeare put an ass's head on Bottom, Miss Murdoch has made a career out of bewitching into beastliness the discreetly charming British bourgeoisie. In her neo-Gothic tales, subtle spells fill the air until respectable Londoners seem to sprout horns under their bowlers, rolled umbrellas (one would swear) resemble snakes, and good gray Anglican church towers turn primitive, not to say phallic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wild Minuet | 6/18/1973 | See Source »

...Jonah and the Whale. Less literal Lutherans have hoped to defeat Preus by nominating a popular moderate candidate, Oswald C.J. Hoffmann, the stem-winding radio preacher of The Lutheran Hour. But these hopes were threatened when it turned out that denomination bylaws require all presidential candidates to swear in advance that they will accept the office if elected. Hoffmann recently announced that such a vow would violate Lutheran theology of "the call" to a vocation. He insists that he must be free to decide after the election. His name may still be put up in July anyway, but Hoffmann told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Tidings | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

...wanted it--he would have seen that the witnesses we brought forth spoke right to the point of Herbert's charges. Has he seen the transcript? Or did he simply take Herbert's word for what was in the show? Where is one single witness who heard me swear to get any kind of revenge for not being able to write a book with Herbert? Where is one single person interviewed on our show who says they were "forced to make their statements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORE FROM CBS | 3/19/1973 | See Source »

...exaggeration in the statement that during these years the fourth floor of the IAB became a haven for weekend-knitters and others who sought the comforts of lightly soothing entertainment. All of the "ugly" elements of "professionalism" were absent; the shoving, crowded masses of basketball fans who spit, scream, swear, and elbow their team on to victory rarely climbed the four flights of stairs more than once...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letter to the Sports Editor: | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

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