Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Little more than an hour after the experiment began, Physicist Enrico Fermi performed several rapid calculations on a three-inch slide rule, then turned to the 41 scientists gathered with him on a balcony. "The reaction," announced Fermi, "is self-sustaining." In celebration, the scientists broke out a bottle of Chianti and drank it from paper cups. Thus, in a squash court on Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, the promise of an atomic age was born 25 years ago last week...
...press conferences studded like black pearls through his nine-year rule of France, President Charles de Gaulle has often enough demonstrated his unique mastery of the power of negative thinking. Last week, in Press Conference No. 16, he surpassed himself. "In 100 minutes," as Paris Le Populaire tidily summed it up, "General de Gaulle in the name of France called for secession of French-speaking Quebec in Canada, tossed England out of Europe, threatened the Common Market with destruction, called the U.S. the principal enemy and suavely knifed Israel." But the broadside effort took its toll. The general...
...Shachtman, one-time personal secretary of Leon Trotsky and a founder of the American Communist Party, will speak on "Fifty Years of Soviet Rule: Workers' Paradise Lost?" at 8 p.m. tonight in Burr...
...Bunting said she told the Radcliffe House presidents that running a girl on probation "was silly, and that the chance of getting the rule changed was minimal," but that they could go ahead with it if the ballot explained Ford's ruling...
...mercenaries who have plagued it for years were in neighboring Rwanda, waiting with their suitcases and women for a one-way ticket out of Africa. Moreover, President Joseph Mobutu can claim credit for a lot more than driving out the "meres." In his two years of rule, he has laid at least the foundations for a more stable and efficient country...