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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back as 1930, in the Cochrane decision, the Supreme Court upheld a Louisiana statute providing for distribution by the state of nonreligious textbooks to children in public and private schools alike. In 1947's Everson v. Board of Education-a judgment that Kennedy used heavily in his arguments-the court approved a New Jersey law permitting free bus service for parochial school children but laid down a stiff distinction between service to student and service to school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Battle Over Schools | 3/17/1961 | See Source »

...study the scriptural system in use by Churches of Christ (not United). Each congregation is self-governing, under its own group of bishops (elders), just as in New Testament times. It should be the constant prayer of all Christians that the unity of Christ's church be upheld: "One Lord, one faith, one baptism . . ."* Our present pluralism is not only weakness but unscriptural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 10, 1961 | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

...interpreting the First Amendment ("Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof") to mean exclusion of direct aid to nonpublic schools. In the Everson case of 1947, the court upheld by 5 to 4 a New Jersey law authorizing free bus service for parochial schoolchildren. But this was interpreted as aid to children, not to schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Catholic Heat | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

...counter-demonstrators' whose read, "Abolish the Un-Ameri- Activities Committee," lay just to a venerable tradition of rican dissent. Their rivals in attan Center upheld a different age. They called themselves ng Americans for Freedom," their posters honored Senator y Goldwater, who would key- their meeting. Their ideology with in a some kind of God, in al rights, and in classical ecocs, combined with nationalist ments -- is familiar indeed: egacy of Jefferson, of Hoover, aft. . . and a bit of McCarthy. The generally thinks of their as "conservative," yet in a the Young Americans For dom are radicals. For they...

Author: By Clark Woodroe, | Title: Conservative Rally Quaint But Successful | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

Still retreating from its 1957 Watkins decision, the Supreme Court has upheld the House Un-American Activities Committee's citation of Frank Wilkinson for contempt. Like its immediate precedent, the Barenblatt case, this one involves a witness who refused to answer questions put to him by the House committee. The Wilkinson ruling, however, has prompted anguished and angry dissents from Justices Black and Douglas and anyone who reads what they have to say about the implications of this decision ought to share their dismay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Wilkinson Decision | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

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