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Rights Without Forms. The very nature of a world regime of due process assumes that it would not appear overnight as a towering edifice, that it would be built step by difficult step, that it would embrace the principles that are common to nations and compromise the forms of laws which are peculiar. Almost ignored behind the headlines of world crisis is the fact that the U.S. in recent years has taken major steps in contributing to a world legal order...
Willard Midgette's woodcuts were chosen in the graphics category. The woodcut is a difficult medium as far as achieving any degree of subtlety is concerned, and Midgette handles it well. The woodcutter always faces the danger of producing a stereotype, and although Midgette's work suffers in this respect it also reflects a surety and precision which is highly personal...
...Columbia's boyish-looking Jay Orear, 32, who has almost completed a major Columbia survey on inspection for disarmament, challenged Teller on the technicalities. "A nuclear-weapons-test ban is one of the easiest to inspect," he said, and seismographic evidence proved it. Inspecting nuclear production "is most difficult.'' Yet the U.S.'s package plan tied the one to the other and made "the last step" the prerequisite for "the first step." Orear quoted widespread opinion that the whole package plan might be "a gimmick to prevent agreement." A wholly workable international inspection system, he said...
...whether you agree with Russell or not, it is a constant joy to be sure you know what he means by what he is saying. Even in reading Russell's most complex and difficult treatises, one never suspects him of trying to avoid an issue by throwing up a meaningless verbal smokescreen that will hide the obvious banality or falsehood of his views on certain points. This is the result of that slow, painful climb toward greater intellectual clarity which has been the life-work of Russell and his colleagues, Moore and Wittgenstein, and which some contemporary writing is doing...
...inquirer will find it difficult to associate Mr. Eyre with any nationality, for a light red, almost auburn, thatch of hair correctly betrays an Irish back-ground, and a large migration of his mother's Shropshire family traversed western Europe to Bavaria many centuries ago. "One of my family claims we are related to the Rainiers--the Monaco Rainiers--but I think the relationship is a dubious one, very dubious... Yet it is fun when Grace bears yet another child to remark that the family is getting larger all the time...