Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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He had his rough moments of boos pickets and catcalls, but not until he got to the atomic showplace of Shippingport, Pa. (pop. 400), where since 1957 a nuclear power plant has produced electricity, did Kozlov look as though he had grabbed hold of a hot wire. The hot wire...
On the seven-man commission appointed to find a candidate and a program to lead the Social Democrats to victory in 1961, party moderates won all the places. Conspicuously left off was Deputy Party Chairman Herbert Wehner, a onetime Communist agitator who was the man most responsible for Ollenhauer'...
If Schmid's health should fail (he suffered a stroke in 1956), the party might put forward another member of the selection commission, a man who is otherwise being groomed to run for Chancellor in 1965 : West Berlin's dynamic Mayor Willy Brandt, 45. Nobody needs to worry...
During his 33 years as Foreign Minister, Joseph Bech of Luxembourg found it convenient to speak of his country's size as a well-rounded 1,000 sq. mi., but as every schoolboy in the Grand Duchy knew, Luxembourg was listed in all the books as having only 999...
"Praise God . . ." So complex was the task that the Commission to Prepare a Constitution had not managed to circulate its draft until a few weeks before the Oberlin meeting; ministers had had little opportunity to discuss it with their church members, and many had not received copies at all. At...