Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ruling group that gathered at 10 a.m. sharp one rainy morning last week in the cream-colored building of the Council of Ministers on Warsaw's Stalin Avenue. This was the inner council, the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' (Communist) Party. They had two important items on their agenda. The first was to reinstate in the party hierarchy Wladyslaw Gomulka, 51, onetime party leader who, because he had refused to castigate Tito, had been disgraced and imprisoned by Stalin. The second item was more audacious: a motion to expel Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, famed Polish-born Soviet...
Demestic Scholarship appropriation was on the agenda for Monday's Council meeting, previous to which Hofeld reportedly worked with president Edward Abramson '56 cautioning members against revealing the reason behind the doubled appropriation at the meeting. The Council tabled the item...
...Council president spoke in an unsuccessful attempt to gain Council consideration of the parking problem. The parking problem was deleted from last night's agenda, eleven voting for deletion, one against and two abstaining. Abramson is expected to put the item back on next week's agenda, but killed a proposal to hold a special meeting to consider the problem...
Stiff opposition to the "Rides Service" budget wilted under extensive debate, the motion passing 14 to 1. Major item on the budget, and major stumbling block to passage, was an estimated $240 needed to pay a dollar an hour, six hours a week, for a permanent director of the service...
...opening exhibit the craft museum chose to show a 314-item cross section of new trends, ranging from Potter Peter Voulkos' hefty vase to SculptorWelder Harry Bertoia's rod and slab screen in bronze and chrome. Pointing out that the exhibit will travel, Aileen Osborn Webb said that she does not "think of the museum as a New York activity." By sending shows on tour she hopes to raise standards and open new horizons for creative craftsmen all over...