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...existence of treaties in an effort to make domestic law. Vinson's main argument was that Truman derived a power to seize the steel mills from the existence of an international emergency. He buttressed this by recalling that the U.N. covenant and the North Atlantic Treaty bind the U.S. to resist armed attack against any member nation. In his view, Truman's seizure was justified, in part, by the obligation of the U.S. to keep up its promised deliveries of steel products to its allies...
...League's complete severance of connections with the NCAA. The severance is expected to take place within the next 12 months and is due to the deep dissatisfaction of the Ivy League college heads with "such a powerful organization of men who think along professional lines and arbitrarily bind colleges to any and all agreements," according to a high University official...
...Brazilian relations were rolling more smoothly than at any time since the years of World War II alliance. On the same day last week, in capitals 4,800 miles apart, Brazilians and Americans sat down to wind up long-pending business that would bind the New World's two biggest republics closer together...
...heavy purchase tax for London cabs was abolished. ¶ Discontinued: entertainment taxes on amateur theatricals, amateur sporting events and professional cricket matches. "In this country, cricket occupies a special place among sports, not only as forming part of the English tradition, but as a common interest helping to bind together . . . the Commonwealth." Tory benchers broke into roars of approval. But from a few Laborite followers of soccer, which Britons consider their national sport, came a glum mutter: "Class favoritism!" ¶ Added: tax deductions, based on the cost of new plants and equipment (to encourage new investment). ¶ Soon...
...those who accept apartheid in full sincerity," hoping thereby to gain the two-thirds majority which he needs, but does not have, to 1) disenfranchise 48,000 half-caste voters in Cape Province, 2) eliminate English as an equal official language, 3) snap the last tenuous threads that bind South Africa to the Commonwealth...