Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that budget!' " Echoed Chicago Republican Albert Hachmeister, member of the state legislature: "Even parents of schoolchildren come to me and say, 'No more tax increases, please, not even for schools.' " Said San Francisco's Republican Mayor George Christopher: "It used to be a simple matter for a petitioner to get people to sign a petition for a new park. Today, I don't get these petitions any more...
...they failed to agree, would the Russians then unilaterally sign a peace treaty with the Communist East Germans? If so, said the West, Russia would still be holding a time bomb over Berlin, but merely lengthening the fuse. Answered Gromyko: The duration of the temporary agreement was "a matter neither of major importance nor of principle" to Russia, and if the German talks failed, Moscow contemplated renewed Big Four talks, not unilateral action. This modification, made since the last session at Geneva, was one thing the West hoped to nail down. The Reds further demanded that the West cut down...
Last week, as crowds outside the Lugazi police station chanted, "We want to see the cannibals," the widow and her three accomplices were in jail pending inquiry into a murder charge. Said one of the defendants matter-of-factly: "It was the sweetest meat I ever tasted...
...Communist-liners, offering the prospect of chaos rather than freedom. Battling out the dilemma in tense sessions at the Organization of American States in Washington last week, the OAS member countries 1) served rude notice on Trujillo that they are not going to come to his aid, no matter what the treaties say, and 2) moved toward a conference of foreign ministers to stop the plots and invasions emanating mostly from Fidel Castro's Cuba...
...come into being two years ago in Cleveland (TIME, July 1, 1957), when the General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches (membership: 1,401,565) agreed to merge with the Evangelical and Reformed Church (membership: 807,280). Working out an organic union between the two bodies is no simple matter; in Congregationalism each local church is entirely autonomous, whereas the Evangelical and Reformed Church is set up in the European tradition of pyramidal administrative authority. The first order of business before the 700 delegates who met in Oberlin last week for the second General Synod of the merging churches...