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...constitutions of Nigeria, Uganda and Tanganyika. Although he has appeared often and successfully to argue Negro causes before the U.S. Supreme Court, Marshall is faced with one difficulty: he has had no experience of British law. His solution: to draft the constitution in U.S. legal terms and then consult the Colonial Office, which will "translate" it into the proper British terminology...
...open-book and take-home systems share the important feature of synthesis--a situation in which the student, with permission to consult his sources, must still draw together his material and produce a comprehensive essay. A pre-assigned topic assumes that, even with foreknowledge, the assignment is sufficiently difficult to demand creative thought while allowing a student to shape and direct his pre-exam studying. This system simply gives more time to the summary work, spreading the synthesis over weeks instead of 180 minutes...
More Than Personal. To prepare for the confrontation with his tough, clever cold-war adversary, Eisenhower flew to Europe in late August, there to consult and coordinate plans with U.S. allies. In Germany, the land overrun by his Allied armies, in England, the country from which he had launched his vast command upon Europe, and in Paris, the city he had liberated, the swell of popular emotion brought a mist to an old soldier's eyes. The tribute was more than personal. When Ike left Europe, he knew that it was in his capacity as the President...
...Russian peace talk, reminded him that they had fought a bitter civil war to drive the Communists out of the country after World War II. Greece had staked out a priority interest in all Balkan affairs, and got from Ike his assurances that the U.S. and Greece would consult on such affairs...
...unchallenged as party leader. In defeat he felt strong enough to pledge himself to "a vow of silence, self-imposed," while he "collected the voices" about what was wrong and what needed to be changed. But at his middle-class Hampstead home in north London, he chose to consult not with trade-union leaders, with whom he feels uncomfortable, but with fellow Oxford intellectuals such as Economist Douglas Jay, who publicly urged that the party should drop its "class image" and "nationalization myth" and even consider changing its name...