Word: governance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though Pern operates a state essentially modeled on the classic Nazi-Fascist pattern, his regime is different in one other major respect. The handsome, strapping six-footer, whose athletic figure now sags just a bit with the weight of middle age (55), does not govern alone. Beside him rules his glittering wife Evita, a 5 ft. 2, pale-skinned, dark-eyed, dazzling blonde of 32. Their man & wife dictatorship has few precedents. Some have compared it with the dual reign of Spain's Ferdinand & Isabella. Perhaps a closer parallel in history was established by the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian...
Andrew E. Norman '51, co-chairman of the American Patriots, issued the following statement last night: "We (the American Patriots) are deeply disturbed that the men who govern our naval affairs today have so little devotion to the traditions and history of this great country that they balk and whimper that the job might be tedious. American Patriots feel as ever that no expense and no effort must be spared The Monitor must be raised. There are higher authorities than Secretary Matthews...
...policy of telling the news as we see it gets us into trouble with authoritarian governments anywhere - Latin America not excepted. But the censor's scissors and the dictator's edicts only heighten the educated reader's determination to get the news. Over the past decade, even the "strong men" have tried to govern by more & more democratic methods and have become less & less prone to interfere with what people read. Though single issues are sometimes confiscated, only Perón's Argentina still bans TIME. In all countries, of course, TIME-readers make full...
...this contradiction is the fact that Nehru has to govern India, and Gandhi never...
French Morocco (pop. 9,000.000) is booming. Huge hydroelectric projects are transforming the barren land into a fertile country, new industries are drawing thousands of people into the cities. But a political conflict threatens to tear Morocco apart. The French, who govern with a firm colonial hand, offer administrative reforms. The Arab population demands full independence. The Arabs look to the U.S. American interest in Morocco as an Atlantic bastion (TIME, Feb. 19) has raised Arab hopes...