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...become the world language he hoped for, but it has turned into a minor international cult. Today, Esperantists claim to be 1,500,000 strong, about 10,000 of them in the U.S. There are Esperanto books from La Sankta Biblio to Kiel Plaĉas Al Vi (As You Like It). Australia has made a movie in it; KLM has advertised, "Flugado ŝparas tempon kaj monon" (Flying saves time and money); and Bing Crosby sang an Esperanto song in The Road to Singapore. Last week the Thollets proved what tourists can accomplish by simply asking, "Ĉu vi...
...papers alongside Margaret for years. The gossip columnists who had long sought to probe the secrets of the princess' heart simply forgot the Holmesian precept that the most easily overlooked clue is often the most obvious one. As a royal equerry and deputy master of King George VI's household (appointed in 1944 when Margaret was only 14), he had the constant duty of accompanying the royal family in all its lighter moments. Group Captain Townsend rode with the princesses, escorted Margaret to parties, flew her planes in air races, played canasta with the Queen, and by royal...
...Supreme Law. The debate turns on a clause (Article VI, Clause 2) in the U.S. Constitution that makes treaties-along with federal laws and the Constitution itself-"the supreme Law of the Land . . . any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding." Laws must be made "in pursuance" of the Constitution, but treaties need only be made "under the Authority of the United States," i.e., by the President, "by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate . . . provided two-thirds of the Senators present concur." Thus treaty provisions can, without legislation, become internal...
...interpreted by the Supreme Court, Article VI means that treaty provisions, or "necessary and proper" laws based on the treaties, can regulate matters that the Constitution otherwise reserves to the states and the people. After federal courts had declared a 1913 migratory-bird protection law invalid on the ground that it violated the Tenth Amendment ("The powers not delegated ... are reserved . . ."), the U.S. and Canada agreed by treaty to protect birds that flew between the two countries. Then Congress passed a law similar to the 1913 law. In 1920, in the famous Missouri v. Holland decision, the Supreme Court upheld...
...Thus, fully accoutred, they struck at the face of Lhotse. Heavy icing is dangerous on a slope of 30°; Lhotse, in many places, is close to vertical. Wilfred Noyce, a Charterhouse schoolmaster, took two days to hack an ice staircase diagonally up to the -col. Camp VI and Camp VII were established on the face; finally, Noyce and a Sherpa gang reached the col and stood in a clear sky on the threshold of Everest. Here they made Camp VIII...