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Congressional v. presidential authority is also involved in a suit over a Nixon pocket veto of a medical education bill during a five-day recess in 1970. Senator Edward Kennedy, a co-sponsor of the bill, went to court contending that the pocket veto power was meant for use only when Congress was in adjournment. He recently won in the trial court, and the appeals are now under way. Further in the future, the court may also have to consider whether the President's national security power legally justified the office burglary of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist...
...disparity between the numbers attending the sessions on China (161) and on black-fiction and film (35), underscores a notorious feature of A.C., the thin line between 'interest' and 'fad.' Four years ago, when black-fiction was "in", one could have expected droves of chic radicals enrolling in a five-day seminar catchily titled, Black Rage, from Little Rock to Black Panthers. Today only a handful of devotees remain, like Jeremiah Sheehy who believes that "black fiction is more relevant to my life than China." For many, then, A.C. may represent a sophisticated 'prep school' for cocktail circuits. That many...
WITH these two old Russian sayings, a Moscow editor summed up Soviet feelings about the purpose and timing of Leonid Brezhnev's historic five-day visit this week to Bonn, the first ever by a Soviet leader to West Germany. In the Russian view, the improving relations between Moscow and Bonn can only be further improved by Brezhnev's talks with Chancellor Willy Brandt. More important, perhaps, the Soviets feel that the time is ripe to extract increased practical benefits from the growing climate of detente...
...toughest test of the five-day campaign is a tilt with Navy in Annapolis. "Navy was in the top four last year, and I would expect it to be higher this season," Munro said yesterday...
...such combinations can be made, computer speed is often not fast enough. The big machines strain to their limit to handle the demands of space travel; they are also too slow to process in time the vast amount of meteorological data necessary to make the detailed and accurate five-day weather forecasts the U.S. Weather Service would like to achieve...