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...government subsequently said it would scrap the lucrative management contracts that had been worth $40 million a year to the leading copper companies, Anglo-American of South Africa and American Metal Climax...
...grand jury is well known to Anglo-American criminal justice as the people's guardian of fairness. The grand jury derives its authority directly from the people, and when that group, independent in its sphere, acts according to its mandate, the court cannot justifiably withhold its assistance, nor can anyone, regardless of his station, withhold from it evidence not privileged...
...admixture of Poles and Slavs and other groups. In many respects, the Scandinavians, long the largest single group in the state, have shaped Minnesota's character. They, together with its large Anglo-Saxon and German strain, account for a deep grain of sobriety and hard work, a near-worship for education and a high civic tradition in Minnesota life. Such qualities helped to produce the intelligent calm?and the stolidity?that characterize the efficient Minnesota atmosphere. It is telling that the University of Minnesota is probably the dominant and most prestigious institution in the state. Its president, Malcolm Moos, sees...
Seated among the few morning spectators in the London law court was a tall, familiar American figure. As the head of a select group of U.S. jurists observing British justice at work during a two-week Anglo-American exchange program, Chief Justice Warren Burger was on a busman's holiday. On a London street a senior British official was pleased to find Burger sufficiently briefed to congratulate him on a very recent appointment. The official, in turn, offered his congratulations to Burger as just about the only man in Washington who had not lost his job in the past...
...Russian Test Pilot Mikhail Koslov. "Then you'll see something." Koslov's pride in his airplane seemed justified. Nearly everyone who attended the Paris Air Show agreed that the Russian supersonic transport, TU-144, was a more impressive-looking craft than its smaller but graceful rival, the Anglo-French Concorde. The final day of the show last week was mostly devoted to flying exhibitions. The Concorde was the first of the SSTs to perform under the canopy of gray clouds that loomed over Le Bourget Airport. As 350,000 spectators watched, French Pilot Jean Franchi...