Word: committeemen
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...School and Scholarship Committeemen have met on Princeton weekend every two years since 1949, when they stepped up their activities as an important liaison between the College and secondary schools...
...make a few mistakes and classify a few real Coloreds as natives," explained one of the committeemen last week, "but that's a risk we must take if we are to sort out these people." The scrutiny did not require too fine a search for "reason" for reclassification. Under the loose definitions of the Population Registration Act, almost any are good enough. Coloreds were being reclassified because they had a native half-cousin, or were friendly with natives...
Here Bulganin, dressed in a pale grey summer suit, drew back slightly from the carved oak podium. In the box behind him, where sit the top committeemen from whom others take their cue, someone laughed. Others joined, and a gale of laughter swept through the white and gold chamber...
...Committee. Western diplomats and analysts are in general agreement that Russia now has a committee government, in which no one has clearly emerged as No. 1, because most of the committeemen are resolved that no one should. Khrushchev, as party boss (Stalin's old job) and by force of personality, is the man with most to say. But the rest do not jump to do Khrushchev's bidding as they did in Stalin's day. At least...
Corks & Coexistence. On his own, Bulganin has at times surprised Western diplomats by his uninhibited outspokenness. Once, when the other committeemen were out of town, he accepted a toast to the Soviet government: "I can drink to that. Tonight, I am the Soviet government." Bulganin's pet refrain since he started partygoing has been that the Soviet Union is determined to avoid war. "Down with war," he shouted at a recent reception. "I say that as commanding general of all the armed forces of the Soviet Union." Later, a champagne cork popped loudly, and Bulganin quickly added...