Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Born to Rule. Thirty years an M.P., twelve a Cabinet minister, he is Britain's best-informed diplomat, its most seasoned negotiator. Yet his career has been a narrow one that lacks the human breadth of a Churchill's, a Truman's, or an Eisenhower's. Eden has seldom strayed beyond the polished confines of Westminster and Whitehall, and his public sense does not derive from an easy personal acquaintance with the common man. Far more, it is an inbred instinct, the product of Eden's membership in that unique class of Englishmen...
...Baruch into endorsing the earlier testimony of Harvard Economist John K. Galbraith, who thought he saw some parallels between the current market boom and the period just before the 1929 crash. Baruch smoothly said he knew nothing of Galbraith "to his detriment," then added: "I think economists as a rule-and it is not personal to him-take for granted they know a lot of things, and if they knew so much, they would have all the money and we would have none." When Fulbright began to question Baruch about profits from short selling, he showed how little homework...
RECONFIRMATION RULE, which has plagued air travelers for more than three years, will be dropped June 15. After that, passengers will no longer have to check in six hours before flight time to confirm their reservations. Airlines decided that the savings were more than offset by passenger ill will...
...controls and the delicately balanced state of U.S. popularity in many nations block the sale of surpluses almost everywhere. Bulk buying contracts, such as the United Kingdom has for Argentine meat, often make it impossible for the U.S. to work into new markets. In Hong Kong there is a rule that 25% of the cotton used by the crown colony's mills must come from Commonwealth sources. When the U.S. offered to sell butter to France so that every schoolchild would get a pat of butter with his lunch. French dairymen objected...
...Rule of Thumb. In Cairo, Egypt, after listening to the complaint of Mrs. Zeinab Hassanein Eddine, 22, that her husband had slapped her, Judge Sheikh Mahmud Mikawi granted a divorce, ruled that although a husband may beat his wife with a cane "no thicker than a finger," he must not strike her on the face, which "reflects the beauty of woman...