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...went on. "We do not use our Army, Navy or Air Force for this purpose, first to avoid any possibility of the use of force in connection with these activities, and second, because our military forces cannot be given latitude under broad directives but must be kept under strict control...
Every Trick in the Book. One of nine children born to a Panamanian bus driver, Ycaza learned to ride ponies as a six-year-old, trained as a jockey in Panama and Mexico. Says his agent: "They're not strict down there. Everybody rides rough." In the U.S., Ycaza quickly endeared himself to the $2 bettors as a jockey who could win with a donkey-if only because he was more than willing to try every breakneck, hot-headed trick in the books. In 1957 track stewards grounded Ycaza for 130 days for fouls; in 1958 he was ordered...
...named Charles C. Marshall challenged him to explain how his loyalty to the Roman Catholic Church could be reconciled with the "American constitutional principles" separating church and state. Smith replied in the next issue. "I believe in the absolute separation of church and state," he said, "and in the strict enforcement of the provisions of the Constitution that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. I believe that no tribunal of any church has any power to make any decree of any force in the law of the land, other than...
From his father, Paul inherited Roman citizenship, the most potent status sym bol of those days, but he was also raised as a strict Pharisee, a member of the intellectual and spiritual elite of Judaism...
Along with new hustle, a new diversity has entered Australian life. Staid Melbourne still languishes under the blue laws that turn it into "a Sunday necropolis," and in most of Australia strict drinking hours still produce a custom known as "the 6 o'clock swill"-which contributes mightily to an annual beer consumption of 23 gallons per man, woman and child. But it is now possible, in the big cities, to find a gas station open before 9 a.m. and a stationery store after 5 p.m. In Sydney or Melbourne, a man who doesn't feel like Australia...