Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...educated African, stirred by the white man's literature and moved by his religion, cannot always be satisfied by bread and machines alone. The Congolese, or those among them who have climbed fastest from darkness to light, are slowly starting to talk about such verboten things as self-rule and democracy. Their stirrings are not enough to disturb the massive calm of the Belgian administration, or impede the spectacular advance of the Congo economy, but they are perceptible. To some Belgians they are alarming. Says a top-ranking Congo official: "What would the Negroes do with votes? Votes mean...
...local reporting where deadline pressure was not a factor, Roland Kenneth Towery of the Cuero (Texas) Record, for his series on Texas land scandals (TIME, March 7); for local reporting under deadline pressure, Mrs. Caro Brown of the Alice (Texas) Daily Echo, for a series on one-man political rule in the state's Duval County (TIME, Feb. 15, 1954); for editorial writing, the Detroit's Free Press's Royce Howes, for an editorial on the responsibility of labor and management in an unauthorized U.A.W. strike against Chrysler; for cartooning, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Cartoonist Daniel...
...Moscow that they write "like twins whom it is difficult to tell apart." The magazines are as bad as the newspapers. Most of them are "dull and featureless." Even the overriding concern of the Russian press with serving the party line fails, says Kommunist. "Propaganda articles are as a rule devoted to the past," and filled with official statistics and statements strung together by writers who are "superficial dilettante journalists...
Vocabulary Builder. Since Caltech is dedicated to science and engineering, it is only natural that its laboratories should outnumber classrooms about five to one. And out of these laboratories have come some major revolutions in knowledge. The terms that Caltech has made important -cosmic ray, Badger's rule, alpha helix, Neurospora, positron, meson and mumeson-may not be exactly household words, but they have become standard parts of science's vocabulary...
...first boss of modern Caltech, who discovered the cosmic ray and first measured the charge of the electron. Nobel Laureate Thomas Hunt Morgan unlocked the mysteries of the chromosome, and Richard Tolman helped prepare the way for the modern theory of chemical-reaction rates. Richard Badger's rule described the relationship between the vibration and size of two-atom molecules. Through his work on the red and yellow pigments of such plants as carrots and tomatoes, Laszlo Zechmeister has determined some of the molecular configurations that are effective precursors of vitamin...