Word: councill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that's Daniel, going into the lions' den," cracked a Washington reporter one warm afternoon last week. The Daniel: shock-haired John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 41, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and front-running candidate for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination. The lions: the 51-man Council of Methodist Bishops (membership: 10 million), on a long-planned tour to talk with top ranking Washingtonians, including President Eisenhower and Chief Justice Earl Warren, now waiting in Washington's Old Senate Office Building. Candidate Kennedy, head tucked in careful thought over each answer, was quizzed on his Roman Catholicism...
...Football. Convinced of late that African nationalism is the coming thing, Africa's Asians are now trying to come to terms with it. In Kenya, Indian members of the Legislative Council have joined with Labor Leader Tom Mboya against the whites. But the fact remains that a few years ago the Mau Mau were just as ready to dismember Asians as Europeans (though Nehru blindly urged Kenya's Indians to support the Mau Mau "liberation army"), and that in some of the recent riots in Nyasaland, Indians and their shops were the chief victims. "We are like...
...Gross national product in the first quarter increased to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $465 billion, up from $453 billion in the fourth quarter last year, the President's Council of Economic Advisers reported in a preliminary estimate...
...thank God that the Atlantic stands between us and the ignominy of a written constitution," a member of the Cambridge University Debate Union declared yesterday afternoon in a transatlantic debate with the Harvard Debate Council...
...opposing the proposition, "Resolved: That this house thanks God for the Atlantic," members of the Harvard Debate Council pointed out that "The Atlantic is a pretty inactive stretch of real estate," and "a dull, dirty ditch that prevents us from seeing each other as we really...