Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...force both governments to ratify permanent French control of Algeria. Speaking for Algerians, Tunisians and Moroccans alike, Morocco's semiofficial Al Ahd Al Jadid last week snapped: "The French proposition is an effort to turn attention away from the Algerian drama and to set a trap with the object of consolidating colonialism in North Africa on a new basis...
...about aristocratic characters now very nearly extinct. None loved a lord more dearly than Ouida, and, mounted on the plush Pegasus of her imagination, she wrote to hounds with the best of them. She was a hopeless romantic-but she had the sense to know it. "I do not object to realism in fiction," she wrote, "but the passion flower is as real as the potato...
...technical course which must supply not only the materials necessary for harmonic analysis, but also a solid technical background for the future composer. There is a large amount of mechanical exercises and memorization; "real" music is used for the most part in an illustrative capacity rather than as an object of study itself. A year of Music 51 is often more than enough to persuade a student against music as a field of concentration...
Tricky Return. Return to earth will be the most ticklish part of the flight. The pilot will have the help of special flight instruments, and his object will be to meet the atmosphere at a very low angle to minimize speed and heating. The temperature of some parts of the structure is expected to reach 1,000° F. If the temperature rises too high, the pilot may point the nose upward to get into thinner air and let the ship cool off. Gradually the X-15 will lose both speed and altitude. When it has lost enough of both...
...changes in emphasis of doctors' concern for young patients are illustrated by revisions for the new edition. There is a whole page for data about the eyes, from birth (was silver nitrate used, and if premature, was oxygen administered?) through developmental stages ("eyes move together to follow moving object") to examinations by an ophthalmologist. Need for this was established after it was found that far more children than had been realized were having eye trouble before the age of seven. There is a similar page for bones and postural development. Reflecting current concern about radiation, a section has been...