Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faintly visible in last week's developments was a possible acquiescence without agreement based on the referral of both Suez and Aqaba to the World Court. While judgment is being sought, the situation will be shaped to the local preponderance of strength: in Suez, where Egypt has the means and authority to make it stick, Israeli shipping will be barred pending the decision; in Aqaba, Israel is determined and the U.S. is committed to send through ships unless and until the World Court rules otherwise...
Although now a devout Catholic, Cornelia was also the devoted mother of two surviving children (with another on the way). But again she submitted to Pierce's judgment. Four years later, in Rome, they were legally separated. In 1844 she was accepted by Rome's Sacred Heart nuns as a postulant. Their oldest child was placed in a church school, but Cornelia was allowed to keep her two younger children, Ady, 9, and Frank, 3, in the convent...
...meat for scandal. In 1849, only a short time after he had tried unsuccessfully to get a cardinal's hat, he made another spectacular switch ("my allegiance to Rome was a culpable delusion"), sued Cornelia for resumption of his marital rights, and renounced his priesthood. He won the judgment; the Court of Arches ordered Cornelia to leave the convent and return to her husband or go to jail. For weeks Cornelia kept street clothes in her cell, ready to leave the country if Pierce or the authorities should try to seize her. Wild rumors had it that Pierce...
...somewhat encouraging to note that the outstanding scientists of this century show an increasing interest and a striking ability in the study of philosophy. Dr. Oppenheimer has more than proven his abilities as a scientist, and while a judgment of his philosophy might be presumptuous and premature, his recent books, Science and the Common Understanding and The Open Mind have been recognized as the work of a major mind...
Aisner stated that he resigned because of Smith's misrepresentations of fact, his unrealistic business judgment in continuing to increase the debt of the paper and his general attitude." Aisner said the debt of the paper at the time of his resignation was $1479.25 which, he thought, "does not coincide, in my opinion, with the representations made by Smith and his colleagues to the effect than on or about March 7, 1957, the deficit was about...