Word: governing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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French youth dares not dream. It must face a reality partly restricted by tradition, partly by history, partly by the failure of its nation's leaders to govern wisely and fairly...
INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC CONTROL. There is little prospect of stable peace while two or more inimical sovereign govern ments have uncontrolled power over the manufacture and use of atomic weapons. The U.S. proposed international control even when it had a monopoly, but the U.S.S.R. has persistently refused to agree to the thorough inspection that would be necessary to make control effective. The U.S.S.R. wants to "abolish" atomic weapons, i.e., it wants to sign a toothless agreement which a democratic country would keep, but which the U.S.S.R. could ignore...
...steadfastly for Labor and about the same number, or slightly fewer, are habitually Conservative. Perhaps 500 of Commons' seats are therefore already spoken for. But in about 130 other constituencies, locked in the elusive mood of Britain's several million wavering voters, lies the mandate to govern...
While increasing state and local taxes are hard on the taxpayer, the 1955 shift of emphasis tends to bring government closer to the governed. It is a fact that revenue and expenditure figures often measure the power of government. Throughout the growth of the New Deal, when new federal projects and jobs were pouring out of Washington, the power of the state and local governments dwindled while that of the federal bureaucracy grew. In 1955, along with their taxes and their expenditures, the relative power and importance of state and local govern ments are rising...
...schools and most of its hospitals. The state is Governor General Léo Pétillon, 52, a diminutive Belgian barrister who stands but 5 ft. 3 in. in his epauleted white uniform. Known as the "Little Lion" to the 5,000 Belgian civil servants who govern the Congo on his orders, Pétillon has an actor's mobile face, slow limpid speech, and graceful white hands which more often than not gesticulate with a lighted Camel to emphasize a point. An old Africa hand, he is guided by a motto like that of his predecessors: Dominer...