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...Danish explorer and author; in Copenhagen. Mikkelsen first indulged his zeal for polar exploration at the age of 16 by walking 320 miles from Stockholm to Göteborg in an unsuccessful attempt to join an Arctic balloon flight. Later he captured world attention by leading the 1906 Anglo-American polar expedition, a two-year journey that established the fact that there is no land directly north of Alaska. Between 1909 and 1912, Mikkelsen led a mission in search of the diaries of another brave Dane, Mylius-Erichsen, who had died while exploring the northeast corner of Greenland. After recovering...
Mindful of Congress's testiness, Secretary Connally is touching every responsive chord he can reach in his defense of the loan guarantee: jobs, defense, national pride, Anglo-American relations and the future of technology. "We think the price this nation would have to pay if Lockheed went bankrupt entirely justifies this action," he said last week. "Besides, we're gonna have the additional collateral of getting our money out first." One of Connally's biggest selling points is that, unlike the final Penn Central rescue proposal, Government-backed loans to Lockheed will be paid off before...
Many more Anglo-American layoffs could follow, even though most of Rolls seems likely to survive in one form or another. The profitable auto division will probably be sold by the company's receiver to another firm; at least three British automakers are preparing to bid for it. The government has introduced legislation to nationalize most of the engine divisions. Tory spokesmen, however, have been insisting that a nationalized Rolls will have "no obligation" to keep building RB-211 engines under the Lockheed contract, which proved Rolls' undoing...
Clean Sweep? Conspiracy thus poses a legal dilemma. In its effort to cope with group crime, society tends to discard a basic premise of Anglo-American law: the presumption that an individual is innocent until proved guilty. Many legal scholars believe that jurors often regard conspiracy defendants as guilty until proved innocent. There is also rising concern about the Government's increasing use of conspiracy laws against leaders of dissident political groups. Indeed, some scholars agree with Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, who argues: "I would wipe the law clean of conspiracy; on balance, it does more harm than...
...fine art of being a Royal these days consists largely of knowing how to say the right thing at the right time. Speaking at the annual dinner of the Pilgrims, an Anglo-American society, in London, Britain's Prince Charles tried to keep a straight face while defending the reputation of "my great-great-great-great-great-grandfather George III." His ancestor, he said, "consoled himself over the loss of the American colonies with the conclusion that more advantages were to be reaped from their trade as friends rather than as colonies." At the University of London, Charles...