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...courts the right to try G.I.s for on-duty offenses, granting to the host country jurisdiction over off-duty offenses-have worked out in a way that has become one of the wonders of international law (TIME, June 17). One day last week, in a decision that could well rank with other legal history shapers, the Supreme Court ruled 8 to 0 in effect that the status-of-forces agreements are constitutional...
Surveying his family (wife and three college-minded daughters) and his service pay ($10,825 a year, including allowances), Navy Captain Chester W. Nimitz Jr., son of World War II's Pacific Fleet commander, made a hard decision: he will resign from the Navy (with the rank but not the pay of rear admiral*), take a higher-paying job with Texas Instruments Inc., an electronics firm. His seadog father, he said, did not want him to resign, but "understands the situation." Some 88 other Navy captains understand the situation and have applied for retirement this year, including famed...
...anything Stalin had done. But there was a world of difference in Khrushchev's approach to power. Whereas Stalin, utterly contemptuous of party or world opinion, had purged the army and party structure wide and deep, Khrushchev had gone to great lengths to establish support among the party rank and file, particularly in the provinces, and to make himself a popular figure with peasants and workers. He had relaxed the police control, freed many prisoners; he had associated himself with such popular projects as better housing, free farming, decentralized industry, and freedom from the threat...
...from the base line. Backhand lobs plopped into corners like wet sponges. Up in the stands, stunned tennis fans, many of them longtime Hoad baiters, talked aloud of such oldtime greats as America's Bill Tilden or Jack Kramer, and wondered whether Hoad's game did not rank him among them. It was all over in 55 minutes. Afterwards even Hoad admitted that Hoad had been great. "I think I've played better in Australia," he said, "but this was good tennis." So good, in fact, that Amateur King Hoad promptly decided he was now ready...
Throughout the novel the whole vast, vague Russian steppe slips from its habitual disorder into the anarchy of revolution. Trains do not arrive. Officers are suddenly bereft of rank, people of homes. Families lose touch. If the book sometimes reads like a primer, there is probably a good reason: the alphabet of this revolution is still being learned. Troyat has none of the exile's bitterness, but might well claim title to the words of one of his own refugee characters:"Where I am, there is Russia...