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...striking down three of the grants last June, Maryland's top court invoked the Supreme Court's own test when it banned compulsory Bible reading in public schools in 1963: "To withstand the strictures of the Establishment Clause there must be a secular legislative purpose and a primary effect that neither advances nor inhibits religion." It did not matter that the grants were specifically limited to nonreligious purposes-construction of dormitories and science buildings. Instead, the court asked whether each church college was so permeated by religion that a secular grant would automatically aid its sectarian ambiance...
...number of speakers blamed this, as well as the rigidity of the curriculum, for taking the flair out of the "dazzling" students who enter the Med School. Another speaker argued that even more of the graduates would be dull and prosaic if they had not been bright enough to withstand the stultifying experience of the Med School's present course of study...
Fortunately the News proved able to withstand the onslaught. While teachers and students, organizations of teachers and students, and even a Boston newspaper of two lambasted the News for questioning the academic merits of military training, Mungo and his staff persisted in their right to challenge accepted institutions, rules, ideas and men. That remains the ultimate task of a newspaper...
KHARTOUM. Cinerama recaptures the spectacular drama of the 1884 siege of Khartoum, where British General Charles Gordon (Charlton Heston) managed to withstand the Moslem assaults led by the Mahdi (Laurence Olivier) for 317 days before dying in one of history's more fascinating lost causes...
...girls are apparently going to be as busy as bees -painting their knees. Max Factor has already introduced painted designs, and other cosmetic houses have followed with everything from butterflies to zodiac signs. To be ready for the beach, Revlon has rushed onto the market waterproof paints that will withstand the surf. Other manufacturers are putting out vinyl polka dots, eyes, lips and flowers that can be pasted onto legs. There are even gaily colored decals for finger-and toenails. And just in case the message is not getting across, some teen-agers are stenciling at knee level even more...