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...extent the indignation of the intellectuals of that day with the invocation of the amendment by corporation officials in antitrust and rebate cases. The opinion continually belittles the sanctity of the privilege, observing inter alia, "It has no place in the jurisprudence of civilized and free countries outside the domain of the common...
...first profession was banditry, and he still rides round Morocco with a machine gun on his lap. Today, El Glaoui, still lean, dark and pantherish, is one of the world's richest men. He takes a tithe of the almond, saffron and olive harvests in his vast domain, owns huge blocks of stock in French-run mines and factories, gets a rebate on machinery and automobiles imported into his realm. As a sideline, he reputedly takes a cut of the earnings of 6,000 prostitutes operating in the Marrakech area. El Glaoui's fortune is somewhere...
England has not been successfully invaded since William the Conqueror rode over the luckless Saxons nine centuries ago, but the island's invulnerability is about to end. Next month commercial television will invade staunch Britain, surging onto the air waves that have long been the placid domain of the uncommercial, unexciting...
...Corbusier designed the exterior of the church to create what he called "an acoustic component in the domain of form." Then he designed one outer wall of the church as an outdoor backdrop for large pilgrimage ceremonies. By using old brick left over from the previous church, plus concrete, Le Corbusier priced the new chapel...
Each group lives and grows within the frontiers of its own domain, discouraged from emerging by barriers of money, family, profession, taste or education. Each feels bound more to its class than to its generation." Class boundaries in France are often as rigid as Hindu caste lines. Liberty, fraternity and equality may be chiseled all over public buildings; but the habits and prejudices of an old, well-sifted society are stronger than republican slogans...