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...when a gyro is used steadily for days or weeks at a time, it tends to drift from its proper direction, usually because of friction in its bearings and other supporting parts. Even though that friction can be reduced almost to the vanishing point, the least trace of a rub can make the gyro drift...
...rub the British Governor-General's nose in the federation's plight, burly Federation Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky then rose to rail at Britain's "unparalleled treachery and deceit." Chin out, fists clenched, his voice trembling with anger, Welensky cried, "The interests of the white man and the ordinary moderate African in his thousands are being sacrificed in a long-drawn-out act of appeasement which puts Munich in the shade!" He charged that Britain intends the continent as a whole to "be handed over to racialism, whether the cost be a Congo or an Algiers...
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Dean Stiles has leveled a drastic charge: N.C.A.T.E. seeks to impose on all U.S. schools of education a "monolithic and outdated" pattern that goes back to the "teachers' college...