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...purchase of another radio station in 1944, William O'Neil paid an extra $75,000 for a struggling California rocket-propulsion laboratory. That has grown into Aerojet-General, a subsidiary that turns out Polaris, Minuteman and Titan rocket motors and a cigar-shaped, 354-ft. ocea-nographical research vessel called the SPAR, which bobs in the seas in a vertical position. Aerojet also produces more than half of General's sales and almost 40% of its earnings...
Sovereign Prerogative. Frankfurter saw the Constitution as "a vessel out of which meaning is drawn and into which meaning is poured." Vast power to alter that meaning, he pointed out, rested with nine fallible men: "The Supreme Court is the Constitution." For that very reason, Frankfurter feared that lifetime judges, free of popular veto, might easily impose their own notions of "justice." He warned repeatedly that diffusion of power is the basic premise of U.S. Government. In public policy, he said (borrowing a phrase from his hero Justice Holmes), "the sovereign prerogative of choice" should always rest with elected compromisers...
...simpler than open-heart surgery is closure of a patent ductus arteriosus, the shunt that connects the aorta with the pulmonary artery in unborn infants. Normally, the duct closes automatically soon after birth. When it does not, the situation can be remedied either by tying the vessel shut or by cutting it and closing the ends. In major medical centers, mortality from these operations is near zero. But 777 hospitals offer to do them, and 232 hospitals have admitted a death rate of 3.6% from the first type of operation and 9.6% from the second...
...famed Normandie, chief competitor of Britain's Queens for transatlantic honors in the 1930s, who in 1942 stood on a Manhattan pier as the ship burned and finally capsized, crying in vain to police holding him back that he alone had the knowledge to save the vessel; of cancer; in Yonkers...
...Ultimate Goal. MLF is a frail vessel for carrying such a multitude of problems. In itself, MLF is not likely to solve the much larger problems between the Old and New Worlds. But if the U.S. as its stubborn champion had made it part of a truly comprehensive and inspiring plan for a future united European force, it would have meant more- and would have deflated De Gaulle's vague talk about "creating Europe." In a sense, both the U.S. and France are wrong in the current controversy, paradoxically not because their policies are so different but because they...