Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stevenson, the last seven years of expense, taxes, and casualties marked the peak of the power struggle. Democracy has shown, he stated, its ability to compete with totalitarianism where cooperation and persuasion must off-balance the enemy's coercion and command...
...Supreme Court). They talked earnestly until dark, then sped to the home of old Aly Maher, four times a Premier and a master of Egypt's political meteorology, to talk some more. Late that night, Aly Maher called in the press and announced that Nasser and his Revolutionary Command Council were relaxing their grip and would gradually turn Egypt toward parliamentary rule. The timetable: in June, the election of a 250-man Constituent Assembly; in July, an Assembly meeting to ratify a new constitution; by January 1956, free elections for a new democratic Parliament. The R.C.C. said it will...
Many guerrilla chieftains seemed suspicious of the British offer. "We fear there is a wildcat in the bag," said one whom China interviewed. But at week's end, ten favorable replies had been received, and there were two important surrenders: "General Tanganyika," China's former second in command, and "General Katanga." Field Marshal Russia also replied-but in a taunting letter sent not to General China but to British District Officer John Candler. "Soon you die," the note said. Shortly afterwards, Candler drove into the forest and ran smack into Russia's ambush. His body was buried...
...veteran airman, Harold Harris, 58, was Chief of Staff for the Army's Air Transport Command in World War II, Pan American's chief of Atlantic operations when Northwest's board of directors hired him to take over 14 months ago. Under President Croil Hunter, who moved upstairs to board chairman, Northwest had been plagued by maintenance and pilot troubles, high operating costs and a shortage of equipment. Harris leased four DC-6Bs, ordered six Lockheed Super Constellations, and worked out long-range plans for modernization and expansion, including a new heavy-maintenance base at Minneapolis...
...speaking universities abroad. It is impossible to apply to various individual undergraduates who have an indisputably adequate language preparation in a foreign language. And it may seem a rather out-of-the-way argument to the student who wishes to go abroad in order to improve and develop his command of another language...