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Peculiarity & Commonality. Upon this understanding of the principle of law stand the A.B.A.'s Rhyne and many advocates of peace through a world rule of law. "Every human community that is regulated by laws and customs," said the second-century-B.C. Roman jurist Gaius, "observes a system of law which in part is peculiar to itself and in part is common to mankind." The peculiarities lie in the forms of laws and their enforcement. But the commonality-on which any system of world law must be built-rests in basic values, in the hunger of mankind for justice...
...member of one of the big families of the county had his throat slit from ear to ear by his wife, an outsider," says Rhyne. "The feeling in the community against the girl was extremely adverse. The attorney who defended her was an old string-tie lawyer named C. W. Tillett. I begged my father into letting me go to the trial one day. Tillett engaged in flamboyant arguments, told the jury how it was self-defense, and the girl was freed. The fact that this girl got justice in a place where people didn't like her made...
...With earth satellites already relegated to the category of "accomplished," Army and Air Force are racing to be first to try the next logical step into space: a shot at the moon. By later summer the Army will fire from Cape Canaveral a Jupiter-C or hopped-up Jupiter that Army Spaceman Wernher von Braun believes will hit the moon. Less optimistic Army missileers expect their missile will either graze the moon-and message back valuable readings on gases around it-or make a lunar orbit. But the Air Force will probably be able to try an orbiting moonshot first...
Commenting on the recent opening of Memorial Church to people of all faiths, Donald C. Williams, professor of Philosophy, stated, "The move was a gesture in favor of religion only in the sense that polygamy is a gesture in favor of romantic love...
Also Ernest R. May, assistant professor of History; David C. McClelland, professor of Psychology; John R. Meyer '51, assistant professor of Economics; Miss Pauline A. Miller, research associate in Bacteriology; Reginald H. Phelps '30, associate dean of the School of Arts and Sciences; Isreal Scheffler, lecturer on Education; and Amos N. Wilder, Hollis Professor of Divinity, were recipients of the award...