Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minimum, its nonmilitary aspects. House Majority Leader John McCormack has proposed a five-member National Science Council. In the Senate, Arkansas' John McClellan and Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey have sponsored a measure authorizing establishment of a department of science and technology run by a secretary with Cabinet rank. Currently these proposals for another Government agency are downrated because the agency would have to undergo the lengthy labor pains of its own birth before it could even effectively contemplate the problems of space...
...Orleans. Next week he is throwing a big party at Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel, to which 200 of the area's best names have been invited. His classmates, many of them combat veterans, are given to wisecracks about the security net and Ramfis' exalted rank (even though he has temporarily downgraded himself to full colonel while at the staff college). Ramfis' Leavenworth neighbors, a quiet, upper-middle-class group, are jittery over the constant patrolling. "They even flash spotlights into my date's car," lamented a 17-year-old. "I've been embarrassed...
...chief of the British mission in Lhasa for eight years before and after World War II. They compiled lists of Rampa inaccuracies, e.g., mention of gold candlesticks, unknown in Tibet; description of Rampa's mother wearing a single earring, a privilege restricted to male officials of a certain rank. Joining forces with Austrian Author Heinrich Harrer (Seven Years in Tibet), Pallis and Richardson decided to go to work on three-eyed Rampa with a private eye of their...
...Vatican State Secretariat had the last word. Said an official spokesman: "The rank of Prince Assistant to the Holy See will be filled by Aspreno Colonna alone. It is to be expected that Filippo Orsini will have sufficient respect for himself and for others not to show himself at the Vatican again...
Behind the scenes, the Churchill exhibition had set off a seething debate among museum directors. The issues: Is Churchill's artwork worthy of a place in first-rank museums? Or should museums show it as a part of history? Or to increase public interest in art? Or to encourage Sunday painters? By week's end the controversy had reached a point at which some museum directors were barely speaking to old friends...