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After six months of housecleaning, Brazil's revolutionary government last week gave up its power to purge-just as President Humberto Castello Branco had promised it would. The bristles in Castello Branco's broom were two articles in the sweeping Institutional Act decreed by the revolutionaries after they...
But after his speech the diplomat brushed off all questions about the crisis. "Every man over 70 has the right to retire," Lukianov remarked. "I don't think there will be any change for the worse." He would not say anything more.
Paper Ambush. The incident ended a truce between politicians and the royal family imposed by the death of King Paul last March, the Cyprus crisis, and the wedding. The next shot, aimed directly at Queen Mother Frederika, was fired last week from the ambush Athenian politicians typically employ: the rumor...
(6 of 11) generating those thunderbolts pays $39,500 a year (plus a generous flow of hate mail), and a Justice can retire on full pay at 65. But the perquisites stop there. Except for Warren's Government Cadillac, no Justice gets a free car, house, servants or entertainment...
The work of a Supreme Court Justice is so intellectually demanding, that when Potter Stewart arrived from a grueling enough U.S. appeals court in 1958, his first reaction was, "I can't do this." In 1962, after only five years on the bench, the strain forced Justice Charles Whittaker...