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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pocket-the fellow down in city hall. It's a disgrace." Shouted another: "What you Republicans are doing is evil! It's wrong! It's immoral!" When Travia ascended to the speaker's rostrum, many anti-Wagner Democrats turned their backs on him; his main rival, Brooklyn's Stanley Steingut, stalked out without pausing to offer congratulations...
...spirit or the letter of the charter." Even more unacceptable was De Gaulle's proposed remedy, which would bring Communist China into negotiations for the revision of an organization from which it has been repeatedly blackballed. Furthermore, few of the organization's 108 smaller powers, whose main voice is the General Assembly, would likely applaud any move by the Big Five to dictate changes in the U.N. structure...
...economy," said Lenin, "is the main field of battle for Communism...
This Orwellian vision draws scalding scorn from the liberal economists. "Do you mathematicians expect to be able to see from the main computing center," asks Ivan Malyshev, deputy chief of the Central Statistical Administration, "all our vast territory from the cold rocks of Murmansk to the flaming sun of Kolkhida in the Caucasus, to see how people sow and reap, how every chemical complex functions, how every machine operates? If something goes wrong in Khabarovsk, can you merely press a button and straighten things out? A strange Utopia. Society is not the sum of mathematical zeros and digits...
...manor. But escheat (from the Latin ex cadere, to fall out) raises prickly problems with such abandoned intangible property as unclaimed checks because the debts involved have no one physical location. Which state is entitled to escheat a debt owed by a company incorporated in New Jersey, with main offices in Pennsylvania, to a person who once lived in Texas but whose last known address was in Florida? 4? Problem. Last week, in a Texas suit involving three other states,*the Supreme Court issued a milestone escheat rule that finally made sense out of chaos. At issue...