Word: shapes
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Foreign Challenge. While the state of Lyndon thus seemed to be as sound as the State of the Union, the same could not be said for the shape of U.S. foreign relations. One of the President's visitors at the ranch was Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who flew down to brief him on the latest turns in the perennial Viet Nam crisis. One prominent White House wit held that the mess in Viet Nam was no worse than the mess inside the Republican Party, but the joke really wasn't very funny. The fact is that...
...last week the "Huns" were hardly in shape to take over anything, and on the eve of the new legislative session they could not even agree on who should be their majority leaders...
Shambles. Paralyzed by their feud, the New York Democrats let some of their long-awaited chances slip away. The leadership fight held up the slicing of a $4,000,000 patronage pie in the shape of some 400 legislative housekeeping jobs; thus the Democrats had to depend on Republican holdovers to turn on the lights, call the roll, and even chauffeur the official Cadillacs when the legislature convenes this week. The Democrats also failed to appoint committee chairmen, and in the vacuum Rockefeller happily stole the Democrats' thunder, announced some items of his own program, including several proposals that...
...Order of the Coif* has awarded coveted gold Coif Keys to some of the country's brightest law students. Last week the legal fraternity began honoring another kind of excellence: legal writing. The need is clear. At its jargon-free best, legal literature inspires the court decisions that shape U.S. society. Yet legal writers usually toil obscurely for arcane law reviews. Even when they publish books, their reward is likely to be petty cash and a paucity of public praise...
...that are now known seem to favor a plane that is tilted slightly away from the plane of the Milky Way galaxy. It is almost unthinkable, however, that the most distant observable objects may have a plan of arrangement. Can the universe itself, the astronomers ask, have a definite shape? Or is the region that they have been in the habit of calling the universe merely a detail of a larger and still unimagined structure? Clearly, the questions raised by quasars open a new chapter in astronomy...