Word: politician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James, succeeding Metropolitan Michael, who died in New York last July. But behind his election loomed a split in the Greek Orthodox Church, and outright mutiny against towering, white-bearded Athenagoras I of Constantinople, 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Athenagoras' enemies call him a "religio-politician," while his friends point to the unique problems of a job in which his predecessor went mad. The Patriarch of Constantinople has only the power of persuasion among three others of equal rank, ruling the patriarchates of Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem. For "Elder Brother" Patriarch Athenagoras, 72, adroit politics...
...soon found himself back in Washington, as deputy chairman of the Defense Department's Research and Development Board. Government and Science, published in 1954, is to an extent, the result of this experience and reflects Price's continuing concern with the relationship of the technical specialist and the general politician. Along with Professors Carl Kaysen, I. Bernard Cohen and Jerome Bruner, he is working on a seminar, Science and Public Policy, for the School of Public Administration...
...with science and government, Price has always been intensely interested in the science of government. He is most concerned, he says, in the way executive agencies are related to the legislature and to the entire political process. This is, once again, the problem of the specialist and the general politician. Although he says it is impossible to separate the machinery for the formulation and execution of policy from the content of policy, it is plain his chief interest lies in the former sphere. His personal political predilections, unlike those of some of his new colleagues, are totally irrelevant...
...Senator Richard Brevard Russell of Winder (pop. 4,604), marched on Atlanta (pop. 510,000) to try to scare city moderates out of complying with a certain-to-come federal integration order. "I want to invite the people of Atlanta back into Georgia!" cried pone-shaped Politician-Publisher Roy V. Harris. "Our greatest battle is against the quislings...
...reasons for Charles de Gaulle's electoral triumph in Algeria last November was his giving Algerian women the vote. The woman who took most advantage of the offer was Néfissa Sid Cara, a schoolmarm who is the sister of a well-known pro-French Moslem politician. Running for the French National Assembly, she allowed no men to attend her meetings, and she had but one plank to her platform. "We want French law," one weeping woman told her. "My husband left me." "My husband took away my sons," said a veiled woman. "You must give them back...