Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tung to be less brutal. Unsuccessful in Peking, Ghosh went back to Moscow to plead for help there, and last week completed his circle tour by scurrying home to New Delhi to try to hold the party together. Best measure of his success so far: postponement of a party central-committee meeting scheduled for this week, presumably to allow time for tempers to cool...
...nonwhite, and finally, make a convincing demonstration of his agricultural know-how to an "area control board" dominated by European settlers. The one limitation on the area control boards: any African or Asian who suspected that his application had been refused on racial grounds could appeal to a central control board made up of Asians, Africans and Europeans in equal number...
This dominance of central theme should perhaps have been muted. Wright himself should perhaps have been muted, in that his power as an artist makes lesser artists pale. Though Modigliani and Miro may stand up in the Guggenheim Museum, though Leonardo would appear well there, products of lesser painters might be at greater advantage elsewhere...
Squabbles in the Web. The U.S.'s efforts to narrow the space gap since Sputnik I have slogged along under a heavy handicap of organizational confusion. Central in the confusion is an arbitrary, irrelevant division of space programs into "civilian" (Glennan's NASA) and "military" (Johnson's ARPA). Coordination between the two domains is supposedly achieved by the Civilian-Military Liaison Committee, the real purpose of which seems to be to provide a roost for amiable, ineffectual William M. Holaday, who was head of the abolished guided missiles office. But that basic split-up is only...
...full partner, the U.S. has consistently refused formal membership in the pact for fear of stirring up new resentment in India, Israel and most of the Arab states.) With this encouragement, the pact members moved their headquarters from Baghdad to Ankara, and rustled up a new name: the Central Treaty Organization...