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...center of this circle is the totem of Executive privilege???Nixon is ostensibly not protecting himself but his own and his presidential successors' institutional prerogatives. The irony is that the Watergate scandal, and the particular showdown before the Supreme Court, is more dangerous to the presidency than any voluntary concession concerning his privilege would be. By his actions, Nixon has invited a ruling from the highest court that may for the first tune put stated limits on the very immunity he professes to protect...
...they accomplish their mission, the three men assigned to pilot Columbia and Eagle to the moon will rank with history's most illustrious explorers. Yet each realizes that the privilege???and the peril?of making man's first lunar landing belongs to them only by an unlikely combination of luck and circumstance. Edwin ("Buzz") Aldrin, 39, who will steer the lunar module to the surface of the moon, puts it this way: "We've been given a tremendous responsibility by the twists and turns of fate...
...life" the habit foreign nations have of supporting their faltering currencies with dollars. Shopkeepers in many parts of the world give generous discounts to tourists who pay in dollars. Millionaires in Latin America and other developing areas convert their own currencies into dollars?paying a high premium for the privilege???and often deposit the dollars in U.S. banks...
...Interstate Commerce Commission last fortnight took from railroad owners and officials, their families, servants and friends, a most cherished privilege???the right to gad about the country free in a private...
...rained in Paris and 14,000 legionaries with their women folk formed into parade line. In their hands they held blue, white and red flowers. They marched; were cheered; cheered back cheerily. The rain stopped. Through the Arc de Triumphe they went?special privilege???and about the Unknown Soldier's tomb they dropped their red, white and blue posies...
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