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...free salary of $25,000. To assure continuity, the terms are staggered so that five expire every three years. Like the U.S. Supreme Court, the World Court decides by majority vote, and any justice is free to file his own separate opinion. The court has two distinct functions. It hands down "advisory opinions" when requested by the General Assembly, the Security Council, or any other major arm of the U.N. And as the highest international tribunal, it decides "contentious" cases submitted by national governments...
...fortunes wax and wane-and Australia's mostly wax, while the U.S.'s mostly wane. The Aussies have won the Davis Cup in eleven of the past 13 years; the U.S. has not even reached the Challenge Round since 1959. But last week U.S. fortunes took a distinct turn for the better. The U.S. team had already beaten Mexico and Britain handily. Now it needed only to get past India in the interzone finals to challenge Australia...
...close to the policies of the opposition party. If he moves to cut back social security, he will give the Socialists a legitimate issue for the 1965 campaign. In either case, he would need consummate political skill to manuever around his opponents and toward his policies. He has shown distinct reluctance to taint his hands with such manuevers, but he will have to. The cry of "let the Fat Man handle it" will surely be repeated. It is not so sure that he will want...
...Inheritance. As Erhard moves from behind his semiprivate smoke screen into the Chancellor's office, he faces several distinct disadvantages. Though enormously popular, he has no electoral mandate from...
...were, by immutable tribal lore, much more severely restricted and as a result, somewhat at a disadvantage. Here, the girls of marriageable age were, by time honoured edict, by a veritable law of the Medes and Persians which changed not, segregated and formed into a compact mass, separate and distinct, "of" but not "in," the ranks of the general audience...