Word: coding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pippin travels incognito (on a motor scooter) among his subjects and decides that what France most needs is an F.D.R.-style New Deal, a kind of People's Monarchy. To a stunned constitutional convention met to draw up a Code Pippin, he lays down what he wants to be the law. beginning with the maddeningly un-French notion of everyone paying his taxes. Before the reader can say "Ca ira," the mob is in the streets clamoring for the Fifth Republic, and what happens to King Pippin after that is best left for Author Steinbeck to tell...
From this seemingly odd coincidence, scientists have developed a theory not only about the formation of the nebulae, but of the formation of the elements as well. Oppenheimer used this as a case in which analogy led to the discovery of "a code of identity" between seemingly unrelated phenomena...
...From Dublin, Irish Premier Eamon de Valera sent Makarios a history of Eire's fight for independence, accompanied by a note describing the book as a gift "from one who understands and sympathizes." In Cyprus itself church bells tolled triumphantly, spelling out "Makarios" in an old Greek ringing code, and as the news spread from balcony to balcony, crowds poured into the streets, joyously kissing sheepish British soldiers...
...opposed to change and fiercely dedicated to hard work and to their fundamentalist religion, the Mennonites went to Mexico for the same reasons that they soon may choose to leave it: the land hunger of a burgeoning population, and an unshakable determination to live according to their own bleak code. After World War I, the Canadian government set out to homogenize its alien population groups, and the Mennonite settlements in Saskatchewan and Manitoba were told that their children would have to attend Canadian schools. Stubbornly refusing to obey, the German-speaking Mennonites, relatives of the plain folk of Pennsylvania...
...This was too much for Defense Minister Maurice Bourges-Maunoury. Last week he brought formal charges before the Paris military tribunal accusing Servan-Schreiber of violating the French Penal Code by seeking knowingly "to demoralize the army." There were some weak points in Servan-Schreiber's attack. His editors had dressed up the articles with pictures of military action committed not in Algeria but in Morocco, and as a close friend and top-rank follower of Radical Socialist Leader Pierre Mendeès-France, Servan-Schreiber is also open to the charge of politicking. But Servan-Schreiber reports that...