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...possibility that the loss could be the only one Intrepid will ever suffer. Skeptics who considered how Architect Olin Stephens could improve his design for Constellation-the boat that beat Eagle in the 1964 U.S. trials, then went on to wipe up Britain's Sovereign in four straight races-got their answer when Intrepid whipped Connie three times in a row by ever bigger margins: 50 sec., 1 min. 44 sec., 2 min. 11 sec. In two rematches with Eagle, Intrepid coasted to 2-min. 30-sec. and 5-min. 34-sec. victories, and finally, she really rubbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yachting: Intrepid Is the Word | 6/16/1967 | See Source »

Speaking for the court in four cases, Justice William O. Douglas quoted a point from the Reynolds decision: "Political subdivisions of states-counties, cities or whatever-never were and never have been considered sovereign entities." Instead, said Justice Douglas, such subdivisions function as instruments of the state, which can make rules for choosing local administrators by any method it pleases. Unless the rules violate federal rights (by race discrimination for example), said Douglas, "we see nothing in the Constitution to prevent experimentation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: Cooling Reapportionment | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...Ottoman Empire after four centuries in its bondage. The three protecting powers?England, France and Russia?decided that the Greeks should have a non-Greek king on the throne. Oddly, the Greeks readily agreed, giving rise to the later saying: "No Greek will ever tolerate another Greek for his sovereign." The first was a Bavarian, who was dethroned after a revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greece: The Besieged King | 4/28/1967 | See Source »

...Democrat-Socialist coalition regime has made limited new East-West moves possible. While there is not yet any end in sight for Germany's geographical division, most East European governments have dropped the stultifying position that nothing can be discussed unless West Germany acknowledges East Germany as a sovereign state. This year Rumania defied the Kremlin to recognize West Germany-and both Hungary and Czechoslovakia want to follow suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE NEWS-MOSTLY GOOD-BEYOND VIET NAM | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

...year history, Germany's Krupp industrial complex has often seemed as much a sovereign state as a business enterprise. Bismarck, the Kaisers and Hitler all courted the house of Krupp. Kaiser Wilhelm I called it "a national institution." Five generations of Krupps have made a proud point of imperiously waving away even bankers' questions about company finances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: End of a Family Empire | 3/17/1967 | See Source »

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