Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comment: "We must go further." Soustelle hopes to hold Algerian elections next summer (if Paris allows him to) and to discuss a permanent settlement with the more moderate Arab leaders. Yet, as in all French North Africa, Algeria's 1,000,000 French colons are terrified that home rule will submerge them under the votes of 8,000,000 Algerian Arabs. To reassure the colons (and their powerful backers in France), Soustelle announced last week: "We should never have lost Indo-China. We will hold on to North Africa...
...Angelico away from San Domenico was the triumphant return from political exile on Oct. 6, 1434 of Cosimo de' Medici, the wealthiest banker of his day, munificent benefactor and art patron whose scholarly passions and political adroitness made Florence the foremost city of the Renaissance. Cosimo's rule created for Florence an interval of peace and poise in which a man could aspire to make a balanced masterpiece of his life. As the outward expression of this, Cosimo set to work on a program to make Florence the wonder of Europe...
...suspicion pointed straight at the airline's inspectors at Tulsa. American Airlines' own rules require that any cylinder found with more than two studs broken must be scrapped or sent back to the manufacturer (in this case Pratt & Whitney), because such a failure indicates that the base may be warped. Another rule requires that the base flanges of all cylinders going through overhaul must be inspected for flatness with delicate instruments...
Under his editorial rule, the Century has continued its liberal (religious and political) policies for disarmament and against "the fear psychosis" of McCarthyism. The Century has never hesitated to criticize Protestants (particularly for shallowness. overoptimism or bureaucracy), but it also bears down hard on some aspects of Catholicism. Sample: "The Roman Catholic Church, if it persists in wandering off after the fantasies of Mariolatry, will thereby make the task of communicating and commending the Christian Gospel to this age very largely a Protestant responsibility...
...excellent cast-Franchot Tone, Lillian Gish, Ethel Waters, Janice Rule-was able to suggest the last-gasp despairs of a dying order in the Old South, but the violence that flashes only fitfully in the novel seemed too concentrated to be real in the TV play...