Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobel Peace Prizewinning Missionary-Physician Albert Schweitzer, 84, went to Copenhagen to accept a Sonning Prize (the Danish equivalent of a Nobel award and worth about $14,250), plus some $35,625 in other windfall gifts that will be applied to his famed jungle hospital in Gabon, central Africa. That evening, at a state banquet in Copenhagen's Christian-borg Castle, Dr. Schweitzer met another Nobelman, Denmark's aging (74) Atomic Physicist Niels Bohr, for the first time. Seated together, the two talked seriously, reportedly found themselves in complete agreement that nuclear test explosions should be stopped...
...fled to Manchuria; he returned later to teach at Kantogakuin, a private university in Yokohama. As he recalls it, he was in a spiritual quandary. ul had stopped practicing Christianity because I found the Trinity doctrine unreasonable. I abhorred Buddhism because it is a skeptical religion, without a central idea or purpose. I could not return to Shintoism's immaturity, its inadequate guide for living." Jewish friends introduced Kotsuji to leaders of the newly founded, Jerusalem-based World Union for the Propagation of Judaism, which hopes to break down traditional Jewish antagonism toward proselytizing and seek converts...
When the finance ministers and central bankers of 68 nations gathered in Washington last week for the annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, they got a stern if fatherly lecture from U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson. Anderson underscored what the delegates already knew: the U.S. is suffering from a deficit in its balance of payments that is causing an outflow of gold from the U.S., steadily raising the amount of U.S. gold earmarked for European nations. The time has come, said Anderson, for the rest of the world to give a helping hand...
...Dining Hall Department should take a serious look at its policy of unlimited seconds. Among the major colleges of the country, Harvard stands in splendid isolation as the only one which hands out food almost indefinitely to a student. The Central Kitchen, to serve 2,200 dinners, will purchase 2,000 pounds of relatively expensive meat. But by eliminating the additional handouts, the amount ordered might be cut 10 to 15 per cent...
Havana University was saturated then, even more than today, with politics. Among the students I met it seemed that their central concern at the University was politics; studies were only incidental. One of the sponsoring organizations of Operacion Amistad, the Federacion Estudiantil Universidad (F.E.U.) has always played a significant political role in Cuba. In fact the F.E.U. held the balance of power in some of the Provisional governments after the fall of hated dictator Gerardo Machado...