Word: presented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a peaceful reassurance that he "favored the de Gaulle regime," French historian and political scientist Jean-Baptiste Duroselle quickly shifted into a frank and at times critical discussion of the present French government in a brief speech before the Eisenhower club last night...
Duroselle's main fear for the infant Fifth Constitution was, in fact, the death of de Gaulle. The prime minister is so strong under the present governmental system, he said, that if the president was weaker than de Gaulle, there could be a conflict between the two executives...
...insisting on her love and admiration for her eminent brother, she traces a change from the young Nehru, who was "not by any means a saint but one who had strong convictions, ideals and dreams that could not be shattered by the influence of those around him," to the present-day Prime Minister, who is "so different, so unapproachable, stern, hard and even intolerant." Worst of all, laments sister Béti, Nehru "has allowed himself to be surrounded by those who are known to be opportunists, and the entire government machinery, corrupt and heavy with intrigue, rules the land...
Morrison-Cocconi refuse to concede that their speculations belong to science fiction. "We submit, rather . . . that the presence of interstellar signals is entirely consistent with all we now know, and that if signals are present, the means of detecting them is now at hand . . . We therefore feel that a discriminating search for signals deserves a considerable effort. The probability of success is hard to estimate; but if we never search, the chance of success is zero...
...unions' most paradoxical argument is that changes in the present rules would actually cost the railroads more than they claim they could save. Railroad workers, whose wages average $2.47 an hour, are paid less than workers in many major U.S. industries. If roads paid overtime, differentials for nightwork. severance pay and other benefits, say the unions, it would cost them $648 million more a year...