Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon after the coup that established Colonel Nasser (nominally, second-in-command to General Mohammed Naguib) as Egypt's real boss, a delegation of Sudanese came to call on the new dictator...
Premier Faure was shocked. Special detectives from Paris arrested the man suspected of organizing the White Terror. He proved to be Chief Inspector Jean Delrieu, formerly head of the Casablanca police department charged with combatting Arab terrorism. Faure called a Cabinet meeting, then put in a call to the Saar. He wanted to speak to Gilbert Grandval...
...Park Forest, a suburb south of Chicago which is growing so rapidly that even local mothers call it "Fertile Acres," not even the oldtimers (residents of four years or more) could remember so bitter a fuss. It began simply as an earnest effort to cope with the town's overcrowded schools. But by last week Park Forest was hard aboil with scalding controversy of an entirely different sort. The cause, as the suburb's Reporter put it, was that "the fury of a woman scorned can't hold a candle to the heat generated by a parent...
Building by committee, says Steiger, leads to an undistinguished hash. "Today, when something must be built, a building committee is formed. The committee calls in specialists to work out their incompetent ideas. There's a specialist for concrete, a specialist for electrical engineering, a specialist for air conditioning, and finally what you might call a specialist for esthetics. That's the architect. All he gets to do is present the board with six or seven fagade projects, and the worst is picked...
Price obviously does not think that his challenge will be met. He scoffs at alleged proofs of the existence and powers of psi. "There is no plausible way to explain these details except in terms of special intelligent agents-spirits or poltergeists or whatever one wishes to call them . . . Parapsychology . . . still bears in abundance the markings of magic...