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...prepared to give up one iota of American sovereignty to a court that is controlled in part by the Soviets," said fiery A.B.A. Past President David F. Maxwell of Philadelphia, who called instead for "a court of free nations . . . where laws will be supported by Anglo-Saxon justice and not totalitarianism."*In rebuttal, the A.B.A.'s incoming president, Whitney North Seymour, 59, of New York, argued that the court's decisions during its 14-year history have shown it to be learned and impartial. The A.B.A.'s new President-elect John C. Satterfield of Mississippi...
Germain Bazin, chief curator of the Louvre: "Our age is in the act of destroying its artistic patrimony. Modern restorers of the Anglo-Saxon school are inspired by the taste for modern painting. They want old masters to shine like contemporary art, which stresses contrasting tones. Old painting was concerned with harmonies, and the passage of one tone into another through half tones. When
...Author Vance Packard saw it in his bestselling The Status Seekers (TIME, June 8), most Americans of Anglo-Saxon ancestry like to sentimentalize their forebears by living in Early American, white clapboard houses. On Christmas Eve, Homeowner Packard took his ease with his wife Virginia and their three children in their 45-year-old, 12-room, two-story, fairly Early American (Federalist), white clapboard house in New Canaan, Conn. At about 7:30 p.m., Packard abruptly learned that such throwback houses also have a drawback: they can be authentic, antique tinder heaps. Sparks from the Packards' roaring Yuletide...
...Pyrenees flank in better shape, De Gaulle could continue to the next item on his agenda for France, expressed in the next sentence of his memoirs: "To make of it one of the three world powers, to become one day, if need be, the arbiter between the Soviet and Anglo-Saxon camps...
...Changed from the Southern-style, Anglo-Saxon name of Johnson's Station in honor of German Immigrant Karl Ludowici, 19th century roofing-tile manufacturer, who gave $1,000 toward a new school building...