Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Britain and India. In the U.S. he had been subjected to the same kind of smear campaign that had turned many an honest but unsuspecting man away from China's Chiang Kaishek. It was true that Syngman Rhee was arbitrary and that he sometimes ran roughshod over the civil rights of his opponents. But he was also...
Such a twin character was, in fact, the goal of the post Civil War educators who founded Cornell. One need merely look back into the "First General Announcement" of Cornell University, as published in 1868, to see that all instruction in the University was comprehended under two divisions. The division of "Special Sciences and Arts" included such vocational preparatory courses as agriculture, mechanic arts, civil engineering, and mining had practical geology. The division of Science, Literature, and the Arts in General" then took in the more liberal side--language, classical studies, and pure sciences...
Finally, after a stormy cabinet session, Scelba triumphed; his plan was okayed. The new civil defense corps, with units in each Italian community, would (by official definition) "protect the population in times of calamity." In order to avoid the parliamentary squabble that would inevitably accompany the establishing of a new agency, the government simply put the new force under an existing agency-appropriately enough, Italy's Directorate of Fire Fighting...
Because they must live and work in the debilitating tropics, U.S. civil servants in the Panama Canal Zone have long enjoyed certain privileges. Among them: 25% pay differential, income-tax exemption, commissary rights and "recuperative" vacations of two months a year. These features have combined to make life in the isthmian strip a kind of welfare-state Elysium. But last week Elysium looked a little more like the good old U.S.A. Before leaving for its recess, Congress had enacted a law decreeing that the Zone's Government employees, like federal workers elsewhere, must pay regular income taxes. Unkindest...
...played by Robert Taylor, the movie's hero could pass only for a Cleveland Indian. Full of good will for his white brothers, and wearing his Congressional Medal of Honor, Taylor rides back from the Civil War to raise cattle on his family's ancient acreage. A villainous, mustachioed lawyer (Louis Calhern) persuades a band of sheep raisers to homestead on Taylor's land, thus compounding two time-honored feuds: sheep v. cattle and settlers v. Indians. A pretty female lawyer (Paula Raymond) with an unrequited yen for Taylor tries for a peaceful agreement...