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...claim that since the crash occurred in Massachusetts (where claims at the time were limited to $15,000), the case should have been tried there. But the full court, in a rehearing, reversed the decision. Said U.S. Judge Irving R. Kaufman, speaking for the majority: "Modern conditions make it unjust and anomalous to subject the traveling citizen of this state to the varying laws of other states through which they move." Judge Kaufman observed that air travelers may within a few hours "pass through several commonwealths." They may fly over states they never intended to cross, be aboard a plane...
...time seems to have passed when athletes can afford to play the game at the top amateur levels for love alone. There is a growing feeling that to eliminate these boys from the sport they love because of the subsidies of benevolent athletic organizations would be grossly unjust...
...breach between Eastern and Western Christianity that had existed since 1054. A delegation of Greek bishops at Florence recognized Pope Eugenius IV as head of the church. But Orthodox monks and parish priests were opposed to reunion, and the delegates renounced the agreement. "May our hands, which signed the unjust decree, be cut off," they declared...
...Eddie McCormack was standing almost alone on the tailgate of a station wagon and forlornly pleading his cause: "Look at the record-Eddie McCormack has a record." As Teddy swept on, Eddie turned bitter. "Of course I'm hurt," he said privately. "I think it's unjust that he should even try for the nomination. Two years ago. I led all candidates in this state at the polls. Right now I hold the most important elective office held in this state by a Democrat. Then along came Teddy Kennedy out of the blue. If this is politics...
...successful, failed to deliver his central message: "I feel that all we won in the last war was the license to have another. I am trying to reflect the bitterness and disappointment my generation feels. There's a larger theme, that any war, big or little, just or unjust, always degrades the victors equally with the vanquished, and that any war always carries the seeds of another. The only way to change all this is somehow to stop...