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...year lifetime judgeship (TIME, Oct. 8). There were, of course, turgid testimonials arranged by Morrissey's backers. Anticipating opposition in Senate subcommittee hearings, they put on ten witnesses and adduced an encomium from Richard Cardinal Gushing, who in 1956 christened Morrissey's tenth baby, Richard Gushing, in the first such ceremony ever televised...
...secret that Marshall's new job is considered a way station toward his becoming the Supreme Court's first Negro Justice. But even if he goes no farther, Marshall's position already makes him what is often called the Supreme Court's "tenth member." Since the Government is a party in more than half the court's cases, and the Solicitor General is the Government's chief appellate lawyer, the court sees, hears and heeds him more than any other man Although he is paid only $28,500 a year as the Justice Department...
...that is only one-fifth of West Germany's output, East Germany has become the top producer for the Soviet orbit outside of Russia itself. It has the highest living standard of any Communist country and-at least by its own statistics-ranks as the world's tenth biggest industrial power, eighth in production of TV sets, seventh in chemicals, fifth in exports of office machines. From such plants as the Leuna chemical works at Merseburg and the Carl Zeiss works at Jena-mostly established before World War II and rebuilt after bombings and Soviet dismantling-skilled workers...
...writer he has never met, is not likely to meet, and never should meet. The editor has convinced himself that he, like my movie producer, can bang out as good a column if he had the time." For all that, O'Hara ruefully admitted: "For the tenth time, I am an unemployed newspaperman...
...Western U.S., for example, where the Federal Government has spent nearly $21.5 billion on water development, the price of subsidized irrigation water is unrealistically low-from one-third to one-tenth of the actual cost of delivering it. Says University of Washington Law Professor Ralph W. Johnson, an authority on the legal and economic problems of water: "It is time we stopped thinking about water as a unique commodity, governed by novel rules outside the ordinary economic pattern. It is no more unique than food, clothing or shelter...