Word: coal
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Outside the World Court, there are lesser but more productive international courts that link regional groups of like-minded countries. The European Court of Justice has now settled more than 1,000 disputes involving the affairs of the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community and Euratom. Today, individuals from 15 European countries can in some cases appeal beyond their own countries' highest courts to the European Human Rights Court. Set up in 1958 in Strasbourg, France, a commission of the Court has reviewed up to 2,000 complaints and passed on to the Court only...
...Coal Mine. The plan lets U.S. high school graduates, free from all the pressures of being graded, alternately study in the relaxed resort city of Lugano and travel through Europe to quiz politicians, industrialists, cultural leaders, university students. "American students can't afford to be simply tourists-that day is over," explains the energetic director of the program, Ian D. Mellon, 31, an M.A. from New York University. The program's 88 students recently finished a two-week swing through Belgium and northeastern France. Their two dark green buses had carried them to Common Market headquarters in Brussels...
...Coal & Cashmere. East-West trade has been rising by 10% annually, in 1965 is expected to top $7 billion for the first time in history. This commerce takes some fascinating forms. Japan imports millions of dollars worth of coal from North Viet Nam-and is distressed because the trade recently has been impeded by the refusal of some frightened Japanese seamen to sail into Vietnamese waters. Britain buys cashmere from Red China, weaves it into sweaters and socks for sale to the U.S. and other Western countries. Italy is keeping its state-run shipyards busy by building six tankers...
Died. Childs Frick, 81, Manhattan art patron, whose coke-and coal-rich father Henry Clay Frick built a $5,000,000 mansion on Fifth Avenue ("I'll make Carnegie's house look like a miner's shack!"), stoked it with $50 million worth of art, and left it to the public as the Frick Collection, which his son supervised as trustee since 1921; of a heart attack; in Roslyn...
...other part. In a move to decentralize industry, the government last year gave local managers a louder voice in making wage, price and investment decisions. The bureaucrats in Belgrade still held on closely to their control of such big and inefficient sectors of the economy as agriculture, railroads, coal and electricity. Hoping to make those sectors less unprofitable, the government boldly raised prices for their products and services. With that, the newly powerful local managers began falling all over themselves to hike their own prices-and the inflationary romp...