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...dictate the procedures by which it transacts business. The judiciary may pass upon the constitutionality of legislative enactments and in some instances define the bounds of congressional investigations. The Executive may veto legislative enactments, and the legislature may override the veto. The Executive appoints judges and justices and may bind judicial decisions by lawful Executive orders. The judiciary may pass on the constitutionality of Executive acts...
...DELIVERING the goods, ITT and other multinationals have helped to bind the world into the single economic network social anaaysts have predicted for centuries--Sampson has a particularly good passage on the Americanization of ITT employees--and in so doing, these companies have helped bind the world in a tighter political network, as well. Chilean workers face the accumulated strength of American capital; at the same time, though Sampson doesn't stress this much, American capital faces the emerging strength of Chilean workers. For if it is true that ITT proposed to devote its American profits to defeating revolution...
This week the toes that bind the Continent belong to the aggressive voetbailers of Amsterdam's Ajax club and to the graceful giocatori di calcio of Turin's Juventus team. When they meet on traditionally neutral territory in Belgrade's Crvena Zvezda (red star) stadium, it will be a classic confrontation of styles. Ajax, shooting for a third successive cup victory, epitomizes a relentless, free-flowing new style of "total football." Attackers defend and defenders attack interchangeably. Juventus, winner of 15 national titles and known as the "grand old lady" of Italian soccer, represents the conservative, traditional...
...case of the Watergate investigation, however, Nixon seeks, through executive privilege, to protect himself and his administration rather than the nation at large. He could constitutionally bind and gag his present and former associates in cases of security, but he will find it difficult to silence his critics and impossible to silence the Senate investigating committee of Sam Ervin...
...China was both highly sentimental and earthily detailed. The Good Earth was not a great novel, but it eventually helped win its author the 1938 Nobel Prize for Literature. Said one orator at the ceremonies: "You have taught us to see those qualities of thought and feeling which bind us all together as human beings on this earth...