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...Clark joined the Border Reivers, a Scottish auto-racing club-whose dark blue crash helmet he still wears today. From the start, recalls Fellow Border Reiver Ian Scott Wat son, "Jim drove so fast that most people were scared stiff to sit next to him." Among the 150-odd trophies lying around the 500-year-old farmhouse at Edington Mains is a block of black wood with three toy cars (a Porsche, a Triumph, a Jaguar) mounted on top, along with the inscription...
Despite that warm interlude, Johnson appeared stiff and serious when he mounted the stage of the Opera House. Beginning on a note of polite hope, he declared that, "Where historically man has moved fitfully from war toward war, in these last two decades man has moved steadily away from war. More than 50 times in these 20 years, the United Nations has acted to keep the peace." He called for an "international war on poverty" and an "alliance for man," made a pitch for world birth control. Said Johnson: "Let us act on the fact that less than $5 invested...
...imports from Japan. They want more Japanese investing, fewer imports-and the government loan was Japan's attempt to soothe their growing discontent. "The Japanese are not easy people to deal with," complains Gikonyo Kiano, Kenya's Minister of Commerce and Industry, who also has slapped stiff restrictions on Japanese imports. On the other hand, he adds, "They are most aggressive and able traders. I bought a Japanese car myself...
...managed to miss, a re-enactment of the cricket game staged on the eve of the battle, and a memorial service on the battle site for the slain of all nations, including the French. This was conducted last week in a drenching rain in the presence of 1,100 stiff-lipped British soldiers standing wetly to attention. Announced Britain's ambassador in Belgium, Sir Roderick Barclay: "We have had many ceremonies this week. You might call this one eccentric, in line with the curious behavior of the English...
That the punishment should fit the crime was the bedrock principle of Magna Carta's Chapter 20, which declared that "a free man shall be fined only in proportion to the degree of his offense," and required that no fine be so stiff "as to deprive him of his livelihood." Chapters 28 through 31 insisted that no government official might requisition food, troops, horses or carts without immediate payment: this is the seed of the "just compensation" clause in the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution...