Word: membered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government has made special provision, to use that help responsibly and constructively. It is up to us to do our level best to re-establish speedily our own equality of opportunity ... I believe that when this has once been accomplished, and my special requirements satisfied, then certainly [as a member of any special group] I do not need, do not deserve, and should not accept any special help from the Government. If I do so, I help deny equality of opportunity to all my fellow citizens. No longer am I a fully independent member of society. Rather...
...Force General Thomas White, 57, the Joint Chiefs' newest member (appointed 1957) will stay on as Chief of Air Staff...
Some delicate diplomatic bargaining remained to be done. Would the Cypriot republic be a member of the British Commonwealth, or just part of the sterling bloc? Would Britain have full sovereignty over its Cyprus bases-including the right to launch military action from Cyprus without the consent of the Cypriot government? At stake was whether the British could use the base not only for NATO purposes but as a springboard in Middle East trouble spots, such as Kuwait and Oman, as Britain used it for Suez and Jordan. What would be the citizenship status of the thousands of Greek Cypriots...
...hedge against Turkey's twin fears of a Communist Cyprus or of Cyprus united to Greece, Menderes and Karamanlis agreed to put a cat's cradle of strings on Cypriot independence. Barred from ever becoming part of Greece, Cyprus would probably become a member of NATO, would be allied to both Greece and Turkey and, besides maintaining its own army, would be garrisoned by a combined Greek-Turkish-Cypriot force. Britain, which has made Cyprus its main military bastion in the eastern Mediterranean, would keep its bases on the island. In securing such guarantees for the Turkish minority...
Changing Ears. Without the telephone, the nation's business and pleasure would come to a virtual standstill. In Washington, the world's talkingest city (70 telephones per 100 persons v. New York City's 53.8), President Eisenhower can have instant contact with any Cabinet member via a black and gold phone on his desk. In the Pentagon the world's largest switchboard handles 270,000 calls a day from more than 50,000 telephones. Two telephones (a red one connecting with U.S. bases, a black one with overseas bases) at Strategic Air Command headquarters would flash...