Word: beginning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After five years in power, President Nasser was setting out to create some sort of popular basis for his government. With his soldierly suspicion of all old-style politicians, he had decided to begin at the bottom. In last week's balloting Egyptians and Syrians elected 39,364 local councillors. These councillors would become members of Nasser's National Union, which, he insisted, is "not a single-party system but the framework within which the revolution now beginning will take place." Local councillors will choose provincial councillors, who in turn will elect a General Council for the whole...
...morning prayers service will led this morning by the Reverend Ronald D. Maitland, United Ministry to Students, Harvard University. Maitland will also lead the service tomorrow. Morning prayers are held in the Appleton Chapel of Memorial Church. They begin at 8:45 a.m. and conclude before 9:00 a.m. classes begin...
...revolution, despite its domestic troubles, should be too much of an encouragement to other restless Arabs, particularly in his own neighboring northern province of Syria. Last week, accepting this challenge to his claim to Arab leadership, Nasser proclaimed that the real revolution in Egypt is only now about to begin...
...power in 1952, his revolutionary group of army officers had not fully understood what they were working for. But after the Suez invasion, said he, they saw clearly that the job was to create a wholly new "cooperative socialist and democratic society." In the "radical change" about to begin, announced Nasser, the United Arab Republic will double its national income, eliminate strife between classes, provide equal opportunity...
...first post-Salk vaccine year (1956), the worst polio was among one-year-olds, and in the second, among one-and two-year-olds. Now it is worst among the one-to three-year-olds. Bowing to the statistics, the Public Health Service has recommended that doctors begin polio shots for youngsters two to three months old along with vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough...