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...Supreme Court has just deconsecrated the nation," declared California's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike, 49, adding that the court's decision against a New York State law requiring a daily prayer in public schools was tantamount to setting up a secular state religion-of "time and history, but not eternity." Moreover, it perverted the spirit and intent of the Constitution's First Amendment, and nothing short of another Amendment would right the wrong...
...Kong relative who would guarantee their support. But the police arrested the six for illegal entry, brusquely pushed them back across the border. The Hong Kong Tiger Standard blasted the government for an "appallingly inhumane blunder." The president of Formosa's Free China Relief Association called the action "tantamount to sentencing the youths to death.'' Over the Fence. It was not simply a case of bureaucratic heartlessness. Since the Communists seized China in 1949. Hong Kong has absorbed a million refugees. Because Red China cynically gives exit visas to the aged and infirm...
...convince FCC that because RCA has been involved in a number of antitrust actions, it is not qualified to hold "a grant which must be exercised in the public interest." In rebuttal, RCA last week filed a counterreport reminding FCC that if Philco got the station it would be tantamount to giving it to Ford, and "within the past three years alone, Ford has been charged in at least twelve federal courts with serious...
...words, "presenting Communism as a table groaning with tasty dishes." But, reasoned Nikita Khrushchev, "the preaching of equality in the spirit of the early Christian communes, with their low standard of living, with their asceticism, is alien to scientific Communism. To invite people to such Communism is tantamount to slurping milk with an awl. Communism must not be regarded as a table set with empty plates around which sit high-minded and fully equal peoples." The Greatest Failure. To hasten affluence in Russia, Khrushchev in the past eight years has doubled the number of tractors...
Yesterday Niebuhr said he signed the petition not only because of Scales' personal plight, but also because he opposes the Smith Act itself. "To make advocacy a crime and membership tantamount to advocacy is a violation of the First Amendment," he contended...