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Since he took office last October, Sir Alec has tried to weave together two political styles: a modern theme based on technological efficiency and planning, and the traditional belief that any amateur with a proper classical education and enought gritty pluck can govern...
...reply, Feisal convoked a council of the vast Saudi royal family, including nearly 50 princes of the blood, assorted sheiks and religious patriarchs. The council issued a fatwa, a religious fiat, that declared Saud no longer able to govern and authorized his brother to "discharge all external and internal affairs of state without having to refer to the King." When the news was announced by radio, every transistorized tribesman who was tuned to Mecca knew that this time it was the will of Allah...
...cases, economics is a tie, and Christianity is another tie." All those things that have been said are half truths. Economics cannot be a tie if the prices of our raw materials continually decrease while the prices of your manufactured goods continually increase. Democracy and the idea of constitutional government cannot be a tie when dictatorships, unfortunately, now govern more than six countries in Latin America. It is necessary for the U.S. State Department to abandon the idea that only those dictatorships that exist beyond the Iron Curtain...
...settling in Worcester, Mass. As Shannon sees it, the Irish developed a sophistication in politics through their long struggle against their British overlords. Their favorite maxim: "It is better to know the judge than to know the law." In the U.S., they built the political machines that would eventually govern many cities, and they instructed later immigrants in their intricacies. "For the Irish," writes Shannon, "politics was a functioning system of power and not an exercise in moral judgment...
Ploughshare has yet to dig any canal-like ditches with long lines of nuclear explosions, but it has experimented elaborately with chemical shots and believes it knows the basic laws that govern both kinds of blasts. If nuclear explosives are placed in "strings" with the distance between them equal to half the diameter of the crater that a single shot would dig, and if they are exploded simultaneously, they will excavate a smooth-bottomed ditch, throwing the rock to the sides. One hundred shots, for instance, of 100 kilotons each, will dig a ditch 1,600 ft. wide...