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...seven centuries of jurisdictional thrust and parry, the House of Commons has whittled away the executive prerogatives of the British monarchy, broken the House of Lords to the rank of a disregarded auxiliary, and concentrated in its own hands the two branches of government which the Constitution of the U.S. most carefully separates: executive and legislative. In Britain, the House of Commons is omnicompetent. By a simple majority vote, it makes changes in the unwritten British constitution, and expands or contracts the liberties of the British people. And as leader of the majority party in Parliament, the British Prime Minister...
Victory & Winter. Two columns of burly Patton tanks thrust into the outskirts of Kumsong, shot up everything in sight, and retired to their lines without losing a vehicle, although the Reds had fired on them from a respectful distance with antitank guns. After that, it was clear that Kumsong was finished as an enemy base. There was no need for Van Fleet actually to occupy it until he could do so with a minimum of casualties. This week, after another bold tank raid in which the U.S. armor braved enemy mortar fire, a U.S. patrol moved up to within...
...assassin, seated ten feet in front of the speaker's stand, tried to break and run, but the shouting, screaming mob leaped on him. Moslem National Guards thrust at him with their spears. Fingers scooped out his eyeballs. One of his arms was torn off. Later, after Liaquat had died in hospital (see NEWS IN PICTURES), police identified the dead assassin as Said Akbar, 29, an Afghan. The weapon he had used was a Mauser-type pistol, probably made by native craftsmen of the frontier, where gunmaking is a common household industry...
...shifting focus makes for a confusing psychological kaleidoscope rather than any clear philosophic light. And even at its soberest, Fry's seems a gift better suited to violin cadenzas than sustained organ music, to ladies who, in the end, are not for burning than to men actually thrust into the fiery furnace...
...Charleroi, Belgium, Gynecologist Jules Hustin had just delivered Mme. Berthe Mahaux of a boy by Caesarean section when her heart stopped. He thrust his hand upward through the Caesarean incision until his fingers could feel the heart. He massaged the heart for five minutes. It began to beat again. Last week Mme. Mahaux and her son went home in good shape...