Word: done
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...famous men. Stories, some apocryphal and some authenticated, tell of the last moments of such famed skeptics as Aristide Briand, Paul Valéry, Voltaire and André Gide. Last week the battle was once more joined over the final hours on earth of Edouard Herriot, who had done as much as anyone to insist on the separation of church and state, and had fought tirelessly against church control of public education in France...
Something Done. After spending several weeks of detective work to trace the mysterious outbreak to its common source, the Moroccan government ap pealed to the International Red Cross for help. Moroccan police placed all cooking-oil stocks under their control, stopped sales of the poison stuff (and the spread of the paralysis) outside the Meknes area. They also jailed the 25 merchants. King Mohammed V, whose powers are unlimited by any parliamentary control, put out a royal edict decreeing death for "crimes against the health of the nation," and making the edict retroactive to cover the poison-oil case...
...solid-fuel rocket, too, is simple and vastly promising-but difficult. Chief problem is to get the fuel to burn dependably in such a way as to provide a precalculated, controllable thrust. In the liquid rocket this is done by an intricate system of gas generators, pumps, valves, turbines and tubing. But this advantage is also a source of trouble, because failure of one or more of these intricate parts is the usual reason for the frequent liquid-rocket misfires...
...none of this altered what CBS President Frank Stanton described as the networks' "laxness of responsibility" in an industry that is little controlled and vastly influential. "Something has to be done before it's done to us," said Stanton, hinting at a more balanced program schedule or even at programing that the industry, possibly in an unconscious tribute, calls the "magazine concept...
...this fall to lecture as a guest professor. In Cambridge last week, Tange's thoughts were still in Japan; he was worried that too many traces of the past may remain in his work: "Tradition," he says, "must be like a catalyst that disappears once its task is done...