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...Benchmark Game...
Clearly, Peggy and Guy Smith's example will not hasten that day by any appreciable degree. It is unlikely that they care. Nonetheless, their marriage will doubtless be long remembered as a benchmark in the troubled history of race relations...
...recent flood of forecasts, what are the futurists saying? By no means are all their predictions new, but taken together, they present a remarkable vision. Most convenient benchmark for that vision is the year 2000, a rounded and romantic date that is nearer than is generally realized-only 34 years away, it is nearly as close as the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...Mirror. The rise in spies, along with increasing theft and embezzlements, has produced stronger counterespionage as well as more frequent lawsuits. In what has become a benchmark decision, B.F. Goodrich Co. recently won an injunction forbidding a Goodrich space-suit engineer who had gone over to International Latex to use knowledge gained at Goodrich on his new space-suit work. So far, Du Pont has legally gagged a chemical engineer who knew its chloride process for making titanium dioxide paints when he left for American Potash & Chemical; a court order prohibits him from working on titanium dioxide processes...
Advantage Lost. Last week's Supreme Court decision did not set forth a specific percentage figure for fair representation, but 15% above or below the state's district norm is generally considered the benchmark figure. Altogether there are 33 states in which districts fall outside that standard. Even before the court rendered its decision, suits similar to the one in Georgia were pending in Texas and Maryland. Close on the heels of the decision, Maryland's Governor J. Millard Tawes asked for a postponement of the state's May 19 house primaries in the hope that...