Word: government
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven years as leader of the Opposition, Hugh Gaitskell has fought hard to make the squabbling, divided socialists fit to govern. Last week, for the first time, he finally won the support of a virtually united, confident Labor Party. But he did so by taking a shortsighted, narrow-minded stand on the vital issue of British entry into the Common Market-a stand that ranges Gaitskell alongside the most abject left-wingers in his own party and the most bullheaded jingoists on the Tory side. As he prepared to lead his party into a general election that may be less...
Playing for Time. The Diefenbaker government, bidding for time to restore its shattered fortunes, is determined to govern as long as the House will have it-or at least until John Diefenbaker senses an advantageous issue on which to go to the country. Nobel Prizewinner Lester B. Pearson's opposition Liberals, controlling 100 seats and sensing that their time is ripe, are equally keen to bring the Tories down for an election, if possible before Christmas. The government's life thus hangs by the thread of approval of two minor parties that hold the tender balance of power...
...dioceses. The council is expected to approve in principle procedures for suppressing small sees and gradually dividing up such cumbersome jurisdictions as Mexico City (the world's largest diocese, with 4,800,000 Catholics) and New York, where Francis Cardinal Spellman needs ten auxiliary bishops to help govern his 1,672,000 communicants...
About 80% of those eligible to vote went to the polls, and of those voting, nearly 5,300,000, or 99%, supported the single list. It was a mandate of sorts for Ben Bella, enough for him to begin to govern, but no guarantee that he could abandon his wary habit of sleeping with a pistol handy on his bed table...
...that have to do with active space navigation. Their capsules will maneuver more or less freely, changing their orbits and trying to join other orbiting objects. The new astronauts will carry along their own propulsion systems and navigation instruments, and will wrestle with the strange and complicated forces that govern the motion of bodies in space. Thus, the brains of the .nine young spacemen will have to contain knowledge and skills that have never before been crammed into a human skull...