Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...going on. The Reds demand vengeance against all who participated in the Mosul rebellion (TIME, March 23). Of the original junta of two dozen army officers who overthrew the monarchy, five have now been purged. About 120 officers above the rank of major have reportedly been retired. Thousands of civil servants have been removed from their posts...
Castro, speaking next, said: "I feel my ideas at odds with those of our illustrious visitor." In support of neutralism, he offered a flattering version of U.S. civil defense: "They have shelters against atomic attack; we do not have even a miserable small hole in which to hide. Why not say these truths? Why not say that Cuba has participated in all the wars and when the wars were over its sugar quota was taken away?"* But Castro thought he knew how Figueres had gone wrong: he had been influenced by "a press campaign emanating from the monopoly of international...
...teaching method, give far too little practice teaching in actual classrooms. Ticking off these familiar failings this week, the Ford Foundation's President Henry Heald, sometime (1952-56) chancellor of New York University and an old teacher himself (during the '30s he was a professor of civil engineering at Chicago's Armour Institute of Technology), announced an impressive new foundation gift aimed at achieving "a breakthrough in teacher education.'' The donation: $9,161,210, to be divided among nine colleges and universities...
Zane Grey Theatre (CBS, 8-8:30 p.m.). Edward G. Robinson acting for the first time with Son Edward Jr. in Loyalty, a Civil War skirmish involving Reb raiders...
...Told Me ("On Thursday, May 12, at nine o'clock in the morning, just after I had had breakfast, I saw God . . ."), half the island of Trinidad burns with celestial visions. His Profitable Evacuation (approved by island authorities in the mistaken belief that it is a book on civil defense) becomes a bestseller. Ganesh tops his career by representing his country at the United Nations, where he will presumably wind up lecturing the West on its lack of spiritual qualities...