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...making such nominations, the President carries out a stewardship entrusted to him by the Constitution. Implicit in that stewardship are certain widely accepted criteria of eligibility for the office of Supreme Court Justice. These include, we believe, a rich experience and distinguished performance in the realm of law, and qualities of mind and spirit promising a wise and fair search for the legal merits of cases undistorted by partisan, personal, or regional bias...
...Administration among many businessmen that postwar American aid gives the U.S. a claim to special treatment in global competition. But gratitude, especially for those services rendered more than two decades ago, is the slenderest of reeds on which to build a foreign policy, particularly in the pragmatic realm of economics. An even more pervasive notion behind the increasingly tough U.S. trading stance is that American spending abroad has been largely an altruistic gesture that has almost exclusively benefited the recipients...
King Henry VIII fulminated and fornicated across the landscape of 16th century England, leaving behind a legacy both glorious and gory. Henry expanded his realm by bringing in Wales and Ireland. He gave England poetry, music, art and literature. Henry also gave it Protestantism, six queens, two royal beheadings, three heirs, countless bastard children-and nearly bankrupted the country in the process...
...Realm. Standardizing pitch would have other benefits. Violinists would no longer have to worry about strings snapping under increased tensions. Singers would no longer be shocked by discovering, as they walk onto a strange stage, that their parts have been transposed right out of the realm of possibility. Piano manufacturers would have fewer problems with shattered warranties. "On a grand piano, the pull on all strings creates a force of about 20 tons," says Dr. Daniel W. Martin, chief engineer of the Baldwin Piano & Organ Co. "Raising the pitch ten cycles adds another ton of pull. It could crack...
...last bags of silver dollars sold at par value. Then part owner of a firm that promoted calendars, cigarette lighters and other giveaway items imprinted with corporate trademarks, Segel saw in the picture "an interesting marketing opportunity" for a kind of non-coin of the realm. Advertising in collectors' magazines, he initially signed up 5,252 people to join the National Commemorative Society, a profit-seeking corporation that invited members to vote on memorial candidates from a list of nominees and then buy the winner's likeness in metal. Subject of the first medal: General Douglas MacArthur...