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Last week, from both London and Reykjavik, came announcements that the 2½-year feud had ended. The terms: Iceland gets its twelve-mile limit, but British fishermen are permitted a three-year period of grace, during which they may fish-at certain times, at certain locations -within six miles of Iceland's coast. If Iceland's fishermen catch the fish that the British have been getting, the pact eventually should mean an additional $28 million a year for its one-crop economy...
...express his frustration about a journalistic "creation" that has come home to haunt him: blonde Maxine Mesinger, 35, tattler for the Houston Press. Once Roberts' girl Friday on the Press, Maxine last week was still scooping her way through town as his chief rival, barely noting a snippy feud that has Houstonians gabbing as much about the two columnists as about the people they chronicle...
...Maxine recently was rewarded with star billing in the Press: "Maxine" in big fat letters above the name of her column. "Big City Beat." As for Roberts, the king of Houston's columnists is learning to share his realm, has tried to call off the one-way public feud. "I stopped her one night at the Shamrock." he says, "and told her: 'Max, I don't want this.' " Max's reaction: "Great, it's about time...
...blackmailer shows up, for instance, with the information that the matriarch of the clan, who is very lineage-conscious, did indeed have an ancestor who sailed on the Mayflower-but who jumped ship at Plymouth, England, because the weather was unpleasant. And there is a married couple who feud by doing each other's chores-she shines his shoes, and in riposte he Duzzes her undies. Invention of this sort is too much trouble, however, and for the most part the author amuses himself with the same old verbal...
...Clark, who anticipated Repeal by three years in a 1930 decision which held that the 18th Amendment was invalid because it flouted the will of the people. Appointed Chief Justice of the U.S. Appeals Court in West Germany after the Nürnberg trials, Clark kept up a running feud with U.S. High Commissioner James Conant, in 1953 refused to leave the bench when notified of his dismissal, was finally dislodged when the State Department yanked his diplomatic passport. Judge Clark died...