Word: civilizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Formidable Quartet. Though he comes from a long line of reformers (his father was a top British civil servant in India), Butler fell in with the family tradition quite unintentionally. His rise to power in the Conservative Party was dogged by the memory of 1939, when, at the age of 36, it was his duty to defend the Munich disaster in the House of Commons (the Foreign Secretary, Halifax, was in the House of Lords). The formidable quartet of Tories who opposed Munich-Churchill, Eden, Macmillan and Lord Salisbury-never really made common cause with him. Prime Minister Churchill tucked...
...force officer. Other generals in France had promised to support Massu's movement with an additional 4,000 paratroopers, 80 tanks and two battalions of colonial infantry. In all probability the attack would have met with no organized resistance. Unwilling to take responsibility for plunging France into civil war, General Ely resigned as Chief of Staff rather than issue an order calling upon units in France to oppose their brother soldiers from Algeria...
...shoulders full responsibility for preparedness against atomic attack and "subversive ideological war." Under these decrees, if the President officially declares a "state of alert," every citizen of France between 17 and 60 automatically becomes subject to mobilization and military justice. The task assigned to each individual -military, civil defense or industrial-would be determined by army-run "zones of defense," each capable of carrying on even if communication with Paris or all other zones...
Dealing out annual awards, the American Society of Civil Engineers honored, with a prize for outstanding research, University of California Professor Hans Albert Einstein, 54, son of Physicist Albert. Engineer Hans's contribution to science, more down-to-earth than his late father's famed E = mc2 formula, was "to the knowledge of transportation of sediment in flowing water...
That deepening problem of modern times-giant airliners swooping in on airports thick with ever-increasing traffic-sat like a brooding presence last week at the meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization at Montreal. The conference's purpose: to select a common system of worldwide air navigation...