Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since he keeps the power to appoint the Assembly, Nasser's National Union only slightly modifies his present dictatorship. But he evidently intends that the local councils will take over some responsibility in municipal affairs, which have been absolutely controlled by the central government from the days of Ottoman Turkish rule. Says one Western diplomat: "The National Union is the first 5% installment on democracy...
Down Cuba's 937-mile Central Highway six months ago, Fidel Castro rolled in triumph; presumably to restore the country's democracy and peace. Retracing the rebels' victorious tank treads last week, TIME Correspondent Bruce Henderson found a country tense and bitterly divided. His report...
...nine colleges and universities to improve teacher training (TIME. April 6). Last week Ford gave again: $6,317,000 to ten other institutions, all for the sake of seeding the nation with more competent pedagogues than those now available. Last week's beneficiaries: Bucknell University. Central Michigan College, Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, New York University. University of North Carolina. University of Southern California, Vanderbilt University. Wayne State University. All are hard at work on stepped-up programs following the Ford formula: end trivial, time-consuming "educationist" courses by broadening liberal education for teachers, and get them into classrooms...
...Philanthropist Adolph Lewisohn (patron saint of Lewisohn Stadium), an organizer of several of the mightiest U.S. mining and smelting companies, e.g., Anaconda Copper, American Smelting & Refining, in later years a big help to the late Robert R. Young in his successful fight to win control of the New York Central Railroad; of a heart attack; in Monte Carlo...
Denver, Colo., Red Rocks Music Festival: The Girl of the Golden West, with Eleanor Steber. At the City Auditorium: West Side Story, with the original cast. At the Central City Opera Festival: Die Fledermaus alternates with The Ballad of Baby...