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...limited check at best. The council cannot initiate proposals to the commission, only pass on the commission's proposals to it-and it can modify them only by a unanimous vote. The commission usually prevails. In addition, the Six have also established a seven-man Court of Justice, which arbitrates technical disputes. The Six have set up a 142-member Parliament that meets periodically in Strasbourg, consists of parliamentarians elected by and from the members' national legislatures. But the Treaty of Rome stipulates that in time the representatives are to be elected by direct vote of the Community...
...relative handful of Americans who really comprehend the intricacies of the Federal Reserve System's operations in the money market. George Wilder Mitchell, 57, last week got his just desserts: the Senate approved his appointment by President Kennedy to the Fed's seven-man Board. An economic liberal who favors low interest rates and perhaps more power for the Fed's chairman, he was sponsored by a fellow liberal, Chief Presidential Economist Walter Heller. Mitchell, until now a vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, is also a tax expert who was Illinois director...
Invented by a seven-man committee, including Conservative M. P. Isaac James Pitman (grandson of shorthand's Sir Isaac Pitman), the all-lower-case new alphabet is longer than the old one. While eliminating q and x, it retains all other conventional letters and adds 19 new sound symbols (e.g., ae in the first line of the sample above). In theory, this reduces some 2,000 letter sounds in the regular alphabet to a piano-sized 88. Using the new system, a few retarded readers have already been rapidly cured. But the obvious problem is what happens later, when...
...unified (if neutralized) Germany. Said the party's Deputy Chairman Herbert Wehner: "Like the Christian Democrats' position, the Socialist position is that the European pact system and NATO must serve as a basis for any foreign-policy and reunification efforts." Last week the party's seven-man electoral strategy committee, further revising the party's face, picked Berlin's vigorous Mayor Willy Brandt, 46, as the party's candidate for chancellor...
...proposition that power not only corrupts, but embarrasses, confuses and dismays. The casting is logical, since durable Actor Stewart has grown wealthy by relentlessly registering embarrassment, confusion and dismay on the screen. Major Stewart's predicament in the film is more serious than usual. It is 1944, his seven-man demolition team is the last garrison of an airfield in southeast China, and the Japanese are advancing 40 miles away. Radioed orders pass the buck; the major may withdraw his men by plane, or blow up the airfield and retreat west by truck, destroying the area's only...