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Added Charles S. Rhyne, former president of the American Bar Association and a longtime crusader for world law, who attended as an observer: "In a continent where illiterate populations are largely governed by unwritten tribal and customary law, enforced by illiterate chiefs and elders, there is more need for a rule of law than ever. It is vital to educate governments to the necessity of allowing opposition to exist as part of the rule of law. The conference statement of principles gives both lawyers and political opposition something to cite and something to work with...
...hard core of unionists. Then he got a big break from an unexpected quarter: a wealthy Republican rancher named Fred Van Dyke. While running unsuccessfully for Congress in 1958, Van Dyke was shocked by what he found out about the life of the farm workers. He made an unwritten deal with Smith's new union to harvest his grape crop for $1.25 an hour plus fringe benefits. In the valley, where hourly rates are around $1, this was high pay. Van Dyke believes that only when confronted by a strong union will farmers themselves organize into a body capable...
...this clubby atmosphere, John Loudon employs the same diplomatic skills to make things run smoothly as he does in the international world of oil. He is no desk pounder, has been known to lose his temper only once. Since the Group has an unwritten rule that decisions are never forced to a vote, Loudon, as the primus inter pares, tactfully arbitrates differences, suggests lines of agreement, sounds out his fellow directors. Four are Dutch: Lykle Schepers, 56, in charge of manufacturing, research, chemicals; Luitzen Brouwer. 49, exploration and production; Arnold Hofland, 59, marketing, personnel and Western Europe; and Loudon. Three...
...property owner and his neighbors, that the Grosse Pointe Property Owners Association (973 families) and local real estate brokers had set up a rigid system for screening families who want to buy or build homes in Grosse Pointe. Unlike similar communities, where neighborhood solidarity is based on an unwritten gentleman's agreement, Grosse Pointe's screening system is based on a "written questionnaire, filled out by a private investigator on behalf of Grosse Pointe's "owner-vigilantes...
...more easily move from place to place in the chambers. Each reporter spends a five-minute "turn" (in the House) or a ten-minute "folio" (in the Senate) on the floor, then hustles down to the official reporters' office to read his notes into a dictating machine. An unwritten custom for both House and Senate reporters is to clean up little slips of grammar, fact or taste made by the solons. Once a Congressman leaped to his feet in a farm debate, said that the time had come to take the bull by the tail and look the situation...