Word: ruling
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Cold calm in the face of verbal provocation is the policeman's duty-even as it is the duty of a nurse in a hospital, or an attendant in an asylum. Rule No. 1 was laid down nearly 140 years ago, not long after Sir Robert Peel established the London Metropolitan Police, the first professional force in the English-speaking world. "No [officer] is justified in depriving anyone of his liberty for words only, and language, however violent . . . is not to be noticed. [A policeman] who allows himself to be irritated by any language whatsoever shows that...
...being governed by a man of genius, but from now on it must adapt itself to being governed by men like other men." With those words, Marcello Caetano, a longtime associate of Portuguese Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, last week became Premier of Portugal, ending 36 years of Salazar rule...
Since Robert S. McNamara left the Pentagon six months ago to become president of the World Bank, he has obeyed a self-imposed rule of silence on matters concerning the bank.* He refused all on-the-record interviews, turned down scores of invitations to make public speeches. Instead, McNamara quietly set about learning the ins and outs of his new job, studying the role of the World Bank and planning new ways of enhancing its importance. First off, he appointed task forces of bank specialists to survey present international economic problems and future possibilities. While the task forces worked, McNamara...
...House Masters, who form the Committee on Houses with some Harvard deans, informally agreed to change the long standing rule last week. They delayed formal action until their next meeting in order to give the HUC time to discuss the proposal...
...SECOND ISSUE involves the academic credentials required of section leaders and, in a broader sense, the use and misuse of teaching fellows. As a rule, only teaching fellows (or others with Corporation appointments) are allowed to lead and grade sections. Since 14 of the 24 section leaders in 148 are not Harvard Arts and Sciences graduate students, they are ineligible for appointments as teaching fellows. They have, nevertheless, put more into the theory and practice of being a section leader than have any group of sectionmen before them. It would be a great service to the College if their "Teacher...