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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That threat now seems averted for at least several years. Britain can draw upon its new funds from the Bank for International Settlements for three years, will have until 1978 to repay...
...that Fortas had substantially rewritten a first version of the President's 1966 State of the Union Message. Some Senators were also bothered by the fact that Chief Justice Earl Warren had not really resigned, but has only opted to retire if and when a successor was agreed upon. Republicans, scenting victory in November, thought that was a ploy to prevent Nixon from naming his own Chief Justice...
...locked up in federal prisons throughout the country.* Whether they opposed war in general or the Viet Nam war in particular, whether they burned their draft cards or simply refused to go, each was convicted under the same clause of the Selective Service Act. Yet sentences vary enormously, depending upon the attitudes of the federal district judges who hear the cases. Some defendants are put on probation and will probably never go to prison at all; others draw the maximum sentence of five years and a $10,000 fine. Last year the average sentence was 32.1 months...
...Christiaan Barnard remarked that he would not hesitate to remove a still-beating heart for transplantation if the donor had suffered indisputable "brain death," the suggestion still seemed shocking to many surgeons. Since then, heart transplants have become increasingly common and the criteria of brain death generally agreed upon. Thus, gathering last week in Manhattan, most of the world's transplant surgeons accepted the idea of a beating-heart transplant with Barnardian aplomb...
Hanging Walls. Among modern architects, Mies has always been considered the great classicist. It is thus no surprise that the Berlin museum bears a marked resemblance to a classical temple set upon a giant podium of granite-covered concrete. The podium, or semi-basement, is occupied by the burgeoning permanent collection, but the upper gallery, designed for special exhibitions, dominates the museum. It is simplicity itself: a glass-curtained box with a 213-ft.-square roof upheld by only eight burnished-steel columns. Mies has carried out his concept with subtlety. The columns, for instance, are tapered ever so slightly...