Word: congress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most determined to remain so." His "deception and duplicity," says Gavin, let him conceal slashes in combat-ready divisions by creating "Wilson" divisions out of paper groups of troops as far apart as Fort Benning, Ga. and the Panama Canal Zone. Wilson made good a foolish assurance to Congress that no additional soldiers were needed for Formosan defense, charges Gavin, by shipping groups over without shoulder patches...
...Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, West Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi (one apiece). The one representative that Alaska gets with statehood will temporarily swell the House to 436, but the figure will fall back to 435 after the census reapportionment-which will not take effect until the 88th Congress convenes...
Opposition to the Kerala Communists mounted rapidly. Many of the student rioters were Roman Catholics (Kerala has the largest Christian population of any state in India) determined to fight Communist encroachment in the schools. Following a call for a statewide hartal, or general strike, by the Congress Party and their Socialist allies, some 10,000 dock workers left their jobs in the port of Cochin. Bazaars and factories throughout the state closed for a day. Students stayed away from school. Strikes, demonstrations and picketing erup.ted in town after town. The harried Communists, who had so often employed these same tactics...
...handsome, 82-panel photographic display of what is best and most typical in U.S. architecture today, on view this week at Moscow University. The first exhibit of U.S. building in the U.S.S.R. since World War II, it was sent by the American Institute of Architects for the Fifth Congress of the Union Internationale des Architectes, is drawing some 4.000 Muscovites...
...Professionals were struck by the U.S. technical know-how, analyzed plumbing, wiring and heating systems, wondered (along with many an American) "how you keep them in repair." No less an authority than Nikita Khrushchev endorsed modern architecture over the Russian style. Speaking to leaders of delegations to the architectural congress, Khrushchev said that the very buildings at the university, where the congress was held, are too elaborate and ornate. He recommended simpler buildings. And that, as one American in Moscow put it, should be enough to set a new style in Soviet architecture...