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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...practice, he began to make a name for himself in a series of passport cases: he diligently represented such noted left-wingers as Corliss Lamont, Paul Robeson and Rockwell Kent in proceedings that finally resulted in a 1958 Supreme Court decision ending State Department restrictions on international travel by leftists. All told, Boudin has argued before the Supreme Court 15 or 20 times (the late Justice John Harlan once listed him among the ten ablest lawyers to appear before the court...
...then became the General Assembly's first President. Five years later he helped found the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and from 1955 to 1957 he served as chairman of the Treaties of Rome negotiations, which, thanks to his conciliation of a reluctant France, created the Common Market. "I travel a lot, but every time I come back and my plane approaches the coast of Europe, I am seized with the same tenderness and emotion," he once reflected. "Here, in this Europe of ours that we try to unite, life is truly made for man and to fit his measure...
Innocent here is a gentle, archaic term for a retarded child. Antoinette Guthrie, aged three, is the daughter of a beautiful English woman and a wealthy American. She is confided to the care of an aging friend in East Anglia while her parents travel on the Continent. World War II interrupts the tour, and the parents must return directly to America, leaving their daughter in England for the duration. After the war, the mother, who has become a New York society figure, returns to England to reclaim her child...
...every sci-fi fan knows, one of the great hazards of space travel between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter is the asteroid belt: a doughnut-shaped stretch of floating debris that could fatally pierce the thin metallic skin of a speeding spacecraft. Now, for the first time, a real ship is beginning to run this rocky gauntlet. Success will increase the possibility of future missions to Jupiter and the other outer planets (Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto...
Freeman, 63, joined Tenneco in the company's infancy and soon became a favorite of Founder Symonds. Since his elevation to chairman last year, he has logged some 300,000 miles of travel keeping track of Tenneco's operations. "I trust everyone-it's just that I want to see things for myself," he says wryly in his chain-smoker's husky voice. These days Freeman finds little opportunity to visit his 600-acre ranch near Houston, where he keeps his collection of bronze equestrian miniatures...