Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AMERICAN COMMONWEALTH by Louis Heren. 366 pages. Harper...
Louis Heren, chief Washington correspondent for the Times of London, brings this geriatrics report up to date in a brisk spot checkup on the U.S. political system, loosely paralleling the classic study performed in The American Commonwealth (1888) by another sympathetic Englishman, Lord Bryce. Measured by the age of its continuous governing institutions, Heren judges the U.S. to be the second oldest country in the world; only Britain is its senior. Despite its perpetual self-image of newness, the country is really "a mature, almost ancient land...
...magazine. Most of the sellers were charged with selling "obscene literature." Curiously, the policemen increased their harassment while a spate of court cases to decide the extent of Avatar's social disutility was still pending. Actually, given their past performances, it is unlikely that the higher courts of the Commonwealth, much less the U.S. Supreme Court, would ever bar the frank, satirical publication. Were the courts to prove so prissy, such a decision would be contemptible anyway; Avatar is every bit as meaningful for disenchanted students, as, say, Foreign Affairs is for Washington policy-makers. And there...
Curran emphasized that the form-card-operation system does not interfere with funerals and autopsies. In the case of homicide victims, a coroner would be called before the surgery. Final decisions in these cases, he said, would be left to the Commonwealth or next...
With Sunset thankfully stripped of most of its money-losing ventures, Commonwealth is eagerly looking ahead to expansion in oil, motion pictures and service industries for its next growth. As a start, the company agreed last month to buy Hollywood's Television Enterprises Corp., a privately owned maker of low-budget films. Since the divorce plan was divulged, Sunasco shares have gone from a December low of $7.63 on the New York Stock Exchange to $9.38 last week. For sheer corporate melodrama, Rozet's rescue might make a film itself...