Word: government
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most hotly debated questions in psychiatric circles is how much harm, as well as good, is done to mental patients by prefrontal lobotomy-an operation inside the skull which cuts the lines of communication between some of the parts of the brain which govern social behavior. Now a closely related issue is to be threshed out in the courts: Does a normal, sane man suffer irreparable injury when such an operation is performed...
...Paris everybody knows the Château de la Muette as a mansion of the De Rothschilds. Last week the men who now govern Europe's finances sat in the same gilt & cream chamber where the De Rothschilds once practiced their financial wizardry.* Delegates from 19 OEEC areas had come to La Muette to work out a new Intra-European Payments plan. After hours of futile argument, Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak suggested that the meeting adjourn. Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps cut him short with a crisp insistence. "Gentlemen, I have to go back to England...
...chances of returning home were still doubtful. The Catholics missed by three votes the 107 needed for a clear majority of the Lower Chamber. Probably more than three Liberals would be willing to join with them in voting for a plebiscite on Leopold. The Catholics, however, would rather govern in continued coalition with the Socialists (66 deputies) than with the Liberals (30 deputies). On the whole, the election represented an anti-Marxist swing. The rightist Liberal Party made the largest gain, and the Communists suffered the sharpest loss (from 23 seats to 12). Even so, the election was so close...
...silver-haired Mariano Ospina Pérez has walked some of the steepest political cliffs in Latin America. Not once have his judgment, his courage and his silken poise failed him. A Conservative who reached the presidency because of a split in the Liberal Party, he has had to govern with a Liberal majority in the Congress and with a coalition cabinet. Ospina brushed off diehard Conservative pressure to crush the opposition by high-handed use of his powers. Last year, when enraged followers of assassinated Liberal Chieftain Jorge Eliécer Gaitan sacked his capital, Ospina refused Liberal demands...
...Future. Last August Margaret came officially of age. In the eyes of Parliament, she was old enough to be a Counselor of State, along with her sister and her uncles, and govern in the King's absence. She will still have to wait three more years before she comes into her own money (a ?6,000 annual allowance from Parliament and numerous legacies), but to all intents she is a grownup, with her own suite of rooms at the palace. The yawning gap of years that separates her from her elder sister is all but closed. There is only...