Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intricate pattern of a Persian rug. A Kansan* who entered the Foreign Service in 1925, he served at four Mediterranean and Balkan posts before returning to Washington as assistant chief of protocol. In 1937 Protocol Expert Holmes resigned to become vice president of the New York World's Fair and, in effect, Grover Whalen's secretary of state...
...last legal residence, Mircea got the recognition his mother had longed for. At the conclusion of a suit brought by Mircea Lambrino, a Portuguese court formally declared him to be a true and legitimate Hohenzollern, entitled, along with his stepbrother Michael and his stepmother Magda, to a fair share of Carol's estates, villas and funds. The only problem left was how to talk Michael and Magda out of the money...
...possible course would be for the legislature simply to pass a law establishing fair standards for redistricting. While an ordinary legislative act might be the fastest way to set up general principles, however, it could also be just as quickly repealed by a subsequent majority in the legislature. An amendment to the state constitution, such as that now before the legislature, is the best solution to the problem. Although a longer and more involved procedure is required for approval, a constitutional amendment would have a far better chance of assuming a permanent character...
...clock last Sunday morning, however, the coasts had been shed and the ties loosened. In the vestibule of the house there was a fair-sized crowd--some just entering, some just leaving, and some aimlessly bird-dogging--but only those standing nearest to the door noticed the two men and a redhead enter...
Foreign observers in Cairo agreed that the defendants had had a fair trial, but were surprised by so severe a judgment against men who had proved amateurish as spies and inept as saboteurs...