Word: member
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week a ten-member, blue-ribbon committee headed by Utilities Executive William H. Draper Jr. reported to President Eisenhower on the need for the U.S. to step up, not slow down, its military aid to its allies in the cold...
...Churchill Major is not a member, but must be treated as if he were...
Returning from a 68-day world jaunt a month ago to find his country an economic mess and in political disarray, President Sukarno of Indonesia surrendered to army pressure by reviving the dictatorial 1945 constitution and appointing to his powerful new "inner" Cabinet not a single Communist Party member (TIME, July 20). Last week the Communists, who still claim 1,500,000 members, got another slap. On the very day that their newspaper Harian Rakjat (People's Daily) announced the convening of their big sixth national congress next week, Army Chief of Staff Abdul Haris Nasution ordered that...
Harsh Discipline. The new rules should make it much easier to fill vacancies in the ranks. But each guardsman must still reckon with his tough C.O.: tall, ramrod-rigid Colonel Robert Nunlist, 48, onetime member of Switzerland's General Staff, who was appointed commander in 1957. Nunlist felt that discipline had deteriorated during the long illness of the previous commander, set out to whip the troop into shape. His soldiers are kept taut with tongue-lashings, stern punishments for minor infractions. Nunlist's strictness nearly cost him his life last April, when a discharged guardsman shot...
...Bonn is committed to preserve the jobs of most of West Germany's 306,000 coal miners, fears the power at the polls of the 600,000-member union of coal, iron-ore and potash miners. This makes little sense to German economists, who point out that the booming country has a labor shortage in many other industries, now has only 215,000 unemployed, fewer than ever before...