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Gibes from the Judge. Most cases are heard in People's Courts, which correspond roughly to American county or federal district courts. There, the judge is flanked by two "lay assessors" -workers from factories who are elected by their fellows for four weeks' court service. Theoretically, the workers compose the majority, but, in reality, Feifer found, the court is always dominated by the judge. He is no impartial umpire, as he is in the U.S. The Soviet judge is a protagonist, calling all the witnesses, asking most of the questions, and often browbeating the defendant...
...number of students in the school fluctuates with the inflow of new refugees and the ouflow of scholarship students. At present there are about one hundred students, grouped into four classes that correspond roughly to the seventh through tenth grades. The majority of these students are from Mozambique and speak Portuguese; many of them were "recruited" by rebel agents inside Mozambique because of their ability...
PARKER PEN has mechanized the pen-pal business. An IBM machine, stuffed with 65,000 names gathered the world over, matches ages and hobbies in minutes. Those interested can correspond with French spelunkers, Australian fur farmers or Arabian schoolboys...
Chemistry 40a, which will correspond in most respects to the second half-year of the new course, is designed for chemistry concentrators and premedical students. It covers various methods used in quantitative analysis...
Winning by a Wing. The FAA report rates Boeing's design first, but places Lockheed's a close second. North American finished out of the money. The experts' recommendations correspond closely to the airlines' choice. With the exception of Continental, which initially chose Lockheed first and North American second, the airlines picked Boeing first-but insisted that they nonetheless want Lockheed to continue in the competition. Boeing's design embodies a "variable sweep" wing that can be extended for takeoffs and landings and tucked back for supersonic flight. Because this is such a revolutionary wing...