Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lost. Heard on campus the other day-girl student, seriously, to male student: "I couldn't live without my slide rule...
...each conference, the involved department argued its case, Budget Director Percival Brundage gave cost estimates and advice, Sherman Adams offered pithy guidance, and Richard Nixon summed up the discussions. He used President Eisenhower's recent Oklahoma City speech-which laid down the rule that nonessential spending must give way to defense in Sputnik's day-as a broad outline. Did the proposed program meet the requirements of that speech? If so, it was approved. If not, more work had to be done. At the meeting on Mutual Security, Nixon repeated a phrase he has come to use with...
...Paris Gaillard drove through the long-delayed loi-cadre (framework law) to give Algeria limited home rule. Only two months ago the Assembly had cut a more liberal draft to shreds and so brought down Gaillard's predecessor. Partly because Deputies were unwilling to overturn a brand-new government, partly because the new Premier had prudently pruned away the clauses most objectionable to right-wing nationalists, the bill was approved by a 269-to-200 vote...
Before the United Nations Political Committee in New York City last week, France's Foreign Minister Christian Pineau made the most vigorous and persuasive statement yet heard of the case for French rule in Algeria. Excerpts...
...this nation is to match Russia's ballistic missiles, our own program must be overhauled. There is an obvious need for a real missile czar who would rule an independent commission with its own budget of the Manhattan Project type. Such a group would control the development of all missiles and would allocate these weapons to the armed services on the basis of a strict formula. This commission would end duplications and rivalries. With the necessary power and financing, it would prove far more efficient than the present system. In long range terms, the board would be better able...