Word: romes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Parkinson is the Darwin of the managerial evolution. Of special interest is his Law of the Decline and Fall of Institutions : "a perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse." Is the tourist awestruck before St. Peter's in Rome? The Popes "lost half their authority while the work was still in progress." The reign of Louis XIV, the "Sun King," began to set shortly after he settled at Versailles. On the shores of Lake Geneva stands the finest mausoleum since the Taj Mahal the Palace of the Nations, which opened...
...says.) He spent the past summer traveling in a rented car through Greece and Sicily with a friend, inspecting the relics at Syracuse and Palermo, and visiting Athens, Rhodes and most of the Aegean area. Conway has also travelled extensively in rural France, and "can't quite choose between Rome and Paris as the most beautiful city in the world...
President Goheen has at last shown the way. "God and Man at Princeton" is indicative of an inspired program which emanates from Rome, as anti-American as anything coming out of Communist Russia...
Before Von Braun's "Project Orbiter" got off the ground, an International Geophysical Year panel, meeting in Rome in October 1954, called for earth-satellite launchings during IGY (July 1957 to December 1958). At the urging of the U.S.'s IGY committee, the Eisenhower Administration decided, in mid-1955, to undertake a satellite program as part of the nation's IGY effort. The basic top-level decision then to be made was how to run the project. The twofold decision that emerged from the National Security Council: 1) keep the satellite project separate from military ballistic-missile...
...Rome, thrice-married Cinemactress Ava Gardner said four times was out, described her near, dear companion, Italian Comic Walter Chiari; as just an "attentive, affectionate, charming friend." Mourned Chiari: "I could be ready for the ceremony in ten minutes...