Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...present. Professor Aron's sensitive understanding of this responsibility made his lecture a model of honor, and it was equally honorable in its treatment of those in arms against France. It was "critical" only in the sense that a first-rate political analyst gave critical attention to the central elements of the problem under study. The lecture was remarkable for the generosity and sympathy of Professor Aron's discussion of the principal conflicting forces. These are things that it is not at all easy to report well, and so I hope our rules will not soon be broken again. McGeorge...
...reported to preside in Little Rock for a session of the Eastern District Court of Arkansas. There, in Civil Case 3113, without precedent to guide him, Davies issued the injunction forbidding Governor Orval Faubus and his National Guard officers from interfering with the integration of Little Rock's Central High School. President Eisenhower had to send in federal troops to back him up, but the injunction stuck...
...admitted-on an existentialist ticket. The problem of juvenile delinquency would not be solved by disarming young hoods: "The knife to a juvenile delinquent is very meaningful. You see, it's his sword -his manhood." A better solution would be to hold an annual gangland jousting tournament in Central Park, "which would bring back the Middle Ages." When Wallace noticed the mouse on his cheekbone. Mailer grinned. "Yes." he chuckled, "I got into quite a scrape Saturday night...
Around the Y. But the central fact of Nigerian politics is not a clash between townsman and bush dweller. It is, instead, racial and religious rivalries pointed up by the mighty Y that is stamped across Nigeria's face (see map) by two great rivers-the winding Benue that pours from the cloud-ringed Camerounian mountains in the east, and the majestic Niger that comes in from the west to join the Benue in a single mighty stream running south to the Gulf of Guinea...
...designing their flags, some nations depended on individual inspiration, others on committees and contents. Nigeria held a competition that drew 2,870 entries. The winner: a 22-year-old Nigerian student in Britain who had never designed anything before. The involved banner of the Central African Republic was designed by its Premier Barthélémy Boganda, who was later killed in an air crash (TIME, April 13, 1959). The problems faced by the 18 new nations, and by nations yet unborn, were summed up by an official of the Malagasy Republic. "It was very hard to find...