Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the first U.S. observance of Law Day last week, American Bar Association President Charles Rhyne appeared at Duke University, made a strong argument for a world rule of law. "War with Russia," said the A.B.A.'s Rhyne (TIME, May 5), "is as certain as tomorrow's sunrise unless a formula or mechanism can be developed to maintain peace other than through arms." That being the stark fact, Rhyne suggested that it was high time for the U.S. State Department under International Lawyer John Foster Dulles to set up a new section staffed with experts to concentrate...
...York's Democratic Governor Averell Harriman, no lawyer, turning full face against a fellow Democrat. Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus: "Ours is a nation founded upon the rule of law. It is shocking to see a governor of one of the states calling out the National Guard, not to uphold the Constitution and orders of the Supreme Court but to defy them. Such action cannot be tolerated. It offends the concept of law on which our society is based...
...poet,* is an absolute ruler who earnestly does not want to be one. All week he pored over new drafts for a possible constitution. He also called in the leaders of four major political parties, got them to agree to help him set up a coalition government to rule until the scheduled general election that he hopes to hold in 1959. But it is a sign of Nepal's condition that in spite of himself, Mahendra, King of Kings, Five Times Godly, Valorous Warrior and Divine Emperor, continues to govern by palace rule as Prime Minister, Cabinet and Parliament...
...swore to discharge his duties with "loyalty and patriotism." Cannon in the square outside boomed a 21-gun salute, and the 3,000 people jammed into the 1,000-seat Hall of Congress cheered the return of constitutional government after a decade of dictatorship and 31 months of military rule...
...What happens to Quadriplegic Campanella at the Rehabilitation Institute is mostly up to him. First rule: "Paralysis is a way of life." To teach it-if he has the will to learn-the patient can count on a skilled team of therapists, psychiatrists, vocational counselors, social workers, bracemakers and rehab's own special physicians, the physiatrists. They begin with a precise analysis of how much physical capacity remains, seek out the spine level at which muscles are no longer connected with the brain. Where possible, points of spinal-cord compression have been relieved by neurosurgery; uncontrollable muscle spasms...