Word: governability
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...force base during the war"), and one of the Russian "student editors" who visited the United States recently was a member of the Soviet delegation. "This fellow boldly told the assembly that 'in Russia we feel a student is in the university to study, and not to govern'--which caused quite a gasp from the professional student government types. Most of them hadn't studied in years. Another Russian tactfully amended his naive colleague's statement the following...
...Paulo's U.D.N. at once pledged its support to Quadros. Across the nation U.D.N. Senators, Deputies, party chiefs, intellectuals and newspapers swung into line. Quadros loftily accepted: "I will need party support for the campaign, and even more to govern Brazil afterwards...
Several students said that they cannot afford to eat out. They suggested that food in Harkness Commons is deteriorating and that this order is designed to increase lagging patronage there. One declared that "It is not the tradition of the University to govern by ultimatum." Others objected that they have already invested heavily in refrigerators and cooking equipment...
Major General Leonard Wood, original commander of the Rough Riders, moved up to govern Cuba, and in 90 days stamped out the Aëdes aegypti mosquito, freeing Havana of yellow fever for the first time in 140 years. Four years after the U.S. marched in, it marched...
Hilltop Casbah. A couple of months ago the Riffs of Morocco began to complain openly against the King's government in Rabat. They resent the city-bred administrators that Rabat has sent to govern them, claim that non-French-speaking Moroccans have been frozen out, and that government police have used arbitrary methods, including "torture that even the French could not devise." Six weeks ago an organization called the Rif Liberation and Liquidation Movement suddenly came to light, patterned after the hierarchy of the Algerian rebels across the border...