Word: rubbings
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Former Premier Michel Debre is such a listless political personality that a current joke says he was once seen riding in an empty limousine. He has a fussy manner and a flat, whining voice that somehow rub politicians and many other Frenchmen the wrong way, obscuring his considerable administrative talents. In Charles de Gaulle's electoral landslide last November, Debre-the dedicated Gaullist. major architect of the Fifth Republic's constitution, and the man who served a longer uninterrupted period as Premier (1,193 days) than any other in French parliamentary history-was ignominiously defeated...
Buddha moves-but only to rub his fingers back and forth across the edge of his desk. That desk, clean of papers, may be the most important place in Chicago. For it is the desk of Mayor Richard Joseph Daley, 60. In Chicago, Daley is boss. Few others understand so well what the city is all about: its labyrinths of power, the pulsators of its machinery, the structure of its institutions, the yearnings of its people. Chicago's motto, I WILL, is Daley's personal and political charter. Buddha though he is, he gets things done. Says...
N.C.A.T.E. argues that accreditation is the only way to ensure minimum standards in teacher training. The rub comes in the kind of standards being applied. Dean Stiles has leveled a drastic charge: N.C.A.T.E. seeks to impose on all U.S. schools of education a "monolithic and outdated" pattern that goes back to the "teachers' college...
Meanwhile, Lewis' death would go down as the 977th unsolved Chicago rub-out since...
There comes the real rub. It was in that context that President Kennedy at his press conference last week referred to the Russians in Cuba as, in a sense, "police units." Yet present U.S. policy toward Cuba is, in the words of one top Administration official, "not containment; it's getting rid of Castro." The U.S. intends to keep on applying all the economic and political pressures it can. It also counts on increasing disaffection among the Cubans themselves, based on their lack of food and their lack of liberty...