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International Atomic Energy Agency
International Atomic Energy Agency intergovernmental organization established in 1957 under the aegis of the United Nations to promote the peaceful uses of atomic energy. Its headquarters are in Vienna. It may purchase and sell fissionable materials, offer technical assistance for peaceful nuclear ...
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Wen Jiabao
Wen Jiabao , 1942-, Chinese political leader, b. Tianjin. Originally a geologist, he worked for the Gansu provincial geological bureau (1968-82), where he was the head of its political section, and rose to deputy director general. He later (1982-85) was an officer of the Ministry of Geology and Mine...
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François Truffaut
François Truffaut , 1932-84, French film director and critic. Known in his early 20s as a writer for the influential French film journal Cahiers du Cinéma, he was noted for his excoriating criticism of traditional French filmmaking and for his promotion of the auteur theory. The dire...
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auteur
auteur , in film criticism, a director who so dominates the film-making process that it is appropriate to call the director the auteur, or author, of the motion picture. The auteur theory holds that the director is the primary person responsible for the creation of a motion picture and imbues it wit...
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Sir James Stephen
Sir James Stephen 1789-1859, British colonial administrator; father of Leslie and James Fitzjames Stephen. He served (1825-35) as permanent counsel to the colonial office and Board of Trade and drafted the bill (1833) for the abolition of the slave trade. As assistant undersecretary (1834-36) and u...
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Oveta Culp Hobby
Oveta Culp Hobby 1905-95, American public official and newspaper publisher, U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare (1953-55), b. Killeen, Tex. She served as parliamentarian of the Texas house of representatives from 1925 to 1931 and from 1939 to 1941. In 1931 she married William Pettus Hob...
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Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), independent executive bureau of the U.S. government established by the National Security Act of 1947, replacing the wartime Office of Strategic Services (1942-45), the first U.S. espionage and covert operations agency. While the CIA's covert operations receive t...
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Frank Capra
Frank Capra , 1897-1991, American film director, b. Bisaquino, Sicily. One of the preeminent Hollywood directors of the 1930s and 40s, he produced idealistic populist movies that, sometimes amusingly and sometimes sentimentally but nearly always optimistically, celebrate the virtues of the common Am...
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Luther Harris Evans
Luther Harris Evans 1902-81, American librarian and political scientist, b. Bastrop co., Tex. After teaching political science at several universities, he became director of the Historical Records Survey under the Work Projects Administration (1935). In 1939 he was appointed director of the legisla...
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precentor
precentor [Lat.,=one who sings first], the director of the music of a cathedral or a monastic church and also a cantor .
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