Word: mcdougall
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...problems. The most compelling comparison is to the law of the high seas-as a pair of massive new books on space law make clear. In both Space Law and Government, by Andrew G. Haley (Appleton-Century-Crofts, $15), and Law and Public Order in Space, by Myres S. McDougal, Harold Lasswell and Ivan A. Vlasic (Yale, $15), maritime law, which has grown out of the common consent and reciprocal needs of seafaring nations, is described as one of the most effective, enforceable varieties of international law. With its emphasis on trade and fisheries, maritime law offers convenient models...
...suggested by Lawyer Haley, who also happens to be an ex-president of the American Rocket Society. Haley argues that a nation's airspace is best defined by the altitude (about 50 miles) at which the atmosphere becomes too thin to provide further aerodynamic lift to aircraft. Professor McDougal and friends demur. They prefer to leave the law flexible, to let it grow with a growing accumulation of cases...
...onslaught were still being debated by businessmen, economists and politicians across the land. Some of those who insisted that the President went much too far sounded even more denunciatory than Kennedy had been against Big Steel. "I just figured that this is the way Hitler took over," said George McDougal, vice president of the Daniel Construction Co. in Greenville, S.C. Said University of Chicago Economist Milton Friedman: "It brings home dramatically how much power for a police state resides in Washington." Declared his Chicago colleague, Yale Brozen: "Kennedy's action was the greatest display of dictatorial white-fatherness...