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...consensus, the most single-minded of the group in his determination to get into space. Says Scott Carpenter, Glenn's back-up astronaut: "Most people need a break in the routine to relax and unwind. But not John. He needs no diversion. He's all business and darned hard to keep up with." What is more, Glenn has so devoted himself to the success of the mission that he has come to look upon himself as just another piece of machinery in the system...
...Fortnight ago. Fed Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. gently warned that he would not continue to sluice additional bank credit into the economy indefinitely. This was a polite way of saying that he was prepared to raise interest rates if the demand for money increased too rapidly. But the consensus among U.S. economists last week was that there was unlikely to be any significant increase in interest rates for some time to come...
...conference in Nigeria's gleaming new Federal Palace Hotel, lawyers and jurists from 33 African and Middle East nations unanimously adopted an eight-page document known as the Consensus of Lagos. Most significant proposal: to establish a permanent Organization of African States for the peaceful settlement of disputes, such as the Congo's civil war. As a model for the organization, Lawyer Rhyne pointed to the European Court of Justice, the forum for adjudication of trade conflicts within the European Common Market whose decisions are binding on member states. In the past six months, said Rhyne, the European...
Last week's conference was the third of four regional gatherings at which lawyers of all nations are to lay the groundwork for a grand "summit" meeting of world law tentatively scheduled for New Delhi next year. Among other proposals of particular relevance to Africa, the Consensus of Lagos urged...
After three days of mixing thinking and drinking, Physiologist Greenberg summed up the symposium consensus: "Alcohol is the safest, most available tranquilizer we have...