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...Lower Level. In the second case, the court upheld the long disputed "membership clause" of the Alien Registration (Smith) Act of 1940. Ten years ago, in the Dennis case, the court had sustained the convictions of top Communist Party organizers under the Smith Act. Now it ruled that lower-level members may also be prosecuted...
...take the oath as the nation's first President. It was, he intoned, "a sacred moment in the history of our fatherland.'' In the Afrikaners' eyes, the Boer War was finally won after six bitter decades; no longer would South Africa pay fealty to an alien English-speaking monarch in London...
...entitled to have-our country's emphatic denial of the Israel-Zionist claim to anything called 'the Jewish people.' " Added Dr. Will Herberg, a professor of social philosophy at New Jersey's Drew University: "The American Jew cannot see himself as an alien in a strange land; he sees himself as thoroughly and entirely an American, whose Jewishness itself is really an aspect of his Americanness...
...home, where he ran up six Spanish doubles and two Spanish singles championships, handsome Andres Gimeno (pronounced Hee-may-no) is a national hero. In athletic Australia, where he beat Neale Fraser and Roy Emerson in late '58, Gimeno is regarded as an undesirable alien. In the U.S. he is only faintly remembered as the harder-hitting half of the unpronounceable Spanish team that won the 1960 National Indoor doubles championship by default (the other half: Manuel Santana).* But when Promoter Kramer offered Gimeno a pro contract last year, many tennis fans thought that Kramer's racquet...
Method Teaching. The same goes for teachers, says Mayer, and new methods can show the way. But all too often, those methods are completely alien to teacher training. At the University of Utah, Mayer recorded the kind of "methods" that education students actually do learn...