Word: respecters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Article 1 of the U.N. Charter obliges the U.N. to promote "respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms"; Article 2 bars it from interfering in the "domestic" affairs of member nations. Last week, in the Special Political Committee of the General Assembly, these two principles collided head on. Invoking Article 1, Arab, Asian and African nations proposed a U.N. commission to "study the race situation" in South Africa. France, Britain and half a dozen others objected, citing Article 2. But the ayes had it, 35-2. Not voting: 22 nations, including the U.S., which "deplores" South Africa's racism...
...exists in China today. In Manchuria there are more Russians than in any other part of Red China. Kao, who visited Moscow in 1949, has long been a slavish imitator of Russian methods. Last week he received a group of Soviet artists, loudly applauded (with the proper gradations of respect) both a Stalin Cantata and a tone poem, The Song of Mao Tse-tung. Mao has said: "Comrade Kao Kang is a consistently correct leader." With this buildup, Kao, 50, is already a member of the Chinese Communist Party's 1) Central Committee, 2) Military Council, 3) People...
Although a long haired designer would probably make a poor dean, he might fit in well as a departmental head. The dean needed for the organization program, however, should be primarily an administrator and a fund raiser, a man with a conservative reputation who has earned the respect of both architects and industrialists. Once he takes over, he must first face the immediate problem of a deficit. There are a number of ways he can go about easing Design's expenses...
...library would be stocked with widely-used text books rather than books on specialized subjects. "In this respect commuter needs differ from those of Houses. We feel basic course texts are most important," Whitlock said...
...Navy calls it a "canted" deck; the British, with a greater respect for the language, call it an "angled" deck...