Word: sup
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...officials who have quietly governed France amid the constant crash of cabinets. Without such training, it is hard to rise-a French Henry Ford is almost inconceivable. France has more than a dozen grandes écoles, but the most famous and the most important are the Ecole Normale Supérieure, tops for teachers; the Ecole Polytechnique, tops for engineers; and the Ecole Nationale d'Administration, tops for civil servants...
...three main schools, the one that gave the prewar grand corps its literary flavor is the two-year Ecole Normale Supérieure. A stone's throw from the Panthéon, it was created by the French Revolution in 1794 to "teach morals and shape the hearts of young republicans for the practice of private and public virtue." Each year the school accepts about 80 men out of more than 600 candidates. The goal of normaliens, who study either science or literature, is not only a university degree but also the diploma called I'agrégation...
...press than John F. Kennedy. Nor has any President paid more attention to newsmen-or kept more constantly in mind the uses of the press. Is this good or bad? Last week in the Nation Magazine, a Roman Catholic nun on leave to study mass media sup plied an answer. Wrote Sister Mary Paul Paye, 32, of the Sisters of Mercy: "The American public is exposed to a dangerous phenomenon : the personality cult of the President. I protest -vehemently, vigorously, apolitically and almost alone." Now studying for a doctorate in mass communications at Syracuse University, Sister Mary Paul based...
...Uganda's Apollo Milton Obote, 37, achieved his easy triumph with the sup port of the country's most powerful tribal monarch, Kabaka ("Freddie") Mutesa II of Buganda. Election day brought a heavy turnout; shy Pygmies emerged from Western Uganda's forests to vote, and polling officials often found it difficult to prevent them from taking their bows and arrows into the curtained booths. Winner Obote is a fervent anti-Communist whose major task in corning months will be in London, where constitutional talks are scheduled this summer. The constitution that Obote needs must give Uganda...
Welensky is assured of winning this week's election, but it will be a meaning less victory. The contest is being fought under existing federal election rules, in which only a small number of blacks have the vote; whites, though increasingly crit ical of Royboy. will overwhelmingly sup port him. In the long run. Welensky can not stop the dissolution of the Federation...