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...often-cited Fifth Amendment applies only to the deprivation of property, and the rights of the property owner over the years have been circumscribed by scores of restrictions, ranging from the state's right of eminent domain to a tangle of local ordinances. The courts seem to agree that the rights of U.S. minorities to compete equally in the housing market stand on a par with the rights of landowners. In tests of some of the fair-housing laws that already exist in 17 states and 31 cities, State Supreme Courts have ruled almost unanimously that the laws...
That fawnlike look is Audrey's special domain as a comedienne, and her partner in crime on this elegant occasion is Peter O'Toole, also treading very lightly as a debonair art-world detective whom Audrey has mistaken for a fellow burglar. Together they hurdle a large chunk of plot by stealing a marble Cellini nude from a Paris art museum, armed only with a magnet, a boomerang and a mop bucket...
...schedule. Its only serious problem, caused by the stubborn refusal of Woodside, a nearby suburb, to allow use of its land for SLAC's 200,000-volt power lines and towers, was resolved by Government intervention and esthetic power engineering. The AEC exercised the right of federal eminent domain and was fully supported by Congress and President Johnson. To soothe Woodsiders, power engineers designed and erected unobtrusive, green, one-legged towers, and strung power lines through the trees instead of hacking out the usual lane that is used during construction for maintenance and protection against fires...
...Rings tells how Frodo becomes heir to a magic ring that would, in the hands of Sauron the Dark Lord, give him domination over Middle-earth. A clever old wizard called Gandalf the Grey persuades Frodo to destroy the ring by carrying it to Sauron's domain of Mordor and then dropping it into the impenetrable Cracks of Doom. On his long journey, Frodo is aided by a variety of elves and dwarves, set upon by horrid, yellow-toothed Orcs, nine Ringwraiths riding dark horses, a giant spider, and other henchmen of Sauron. His quest is over when...
...four fundamental instincts (hunger, sex, fight, flight), it is indispensable to most animal species. By means of aggression a species defends its members, attacks its prey, winnows its weak in mating fights and achieves safety through wide distribution-the territory of some species expands because each male maintains a domain that no other male is permitted to invade. Aggression, on the other hand, is a force more carefully controlled in most animals than it is in man. Members of two different animal species frequently fight to a fatal finish; members of the same species seldom...