Word: membered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would inform. The French soon gave up the chase-having made a conquest. After throwing off his Communist ties. Houphouet popped up in Paris, became French West Africa's leading champion of cooperation with France. Paris poured money into the Ivory Coast, and Houphouet himself, already a member of the French National Assembly, became the indispensable black man in every French Cabinet. His Marxist enemies back home pictured him as an "African Bao Dai," willing to sacrifice his people for the pleasures and prestige he enjoyed in Paris...
...village barn, became an altar boy at the local church. After graduating from Fordham University ('11), he studied for the priesthood at Rome's North American College. He served in the Boston archdiocese before the Vatican summoned him in 1925. As first U.S.-born staff member of the State Secretariate, Spellman translated and delivered in English the first papal radio broadcast, stayed for seven years, part of that time as attache to the Vatican's secretary of state and his close friend, Cardinal Pacelli, later Pope Pius...
...Ulanova is the most revered Russian dancer (perhaps the most revered Russian artist in any field), and was even before she moved to the Bolshoi Company in 1944. Born in St. Petersburg in 1910, she was introduced to the dance early: her father, Sergei Ulanov, was a member of the corps at the famed Mariinsky (now Kirov) Theater, and her mother, Maria Romanova, a Mariinsky soloist and teacher at the St. Petersburg Ballet School. At first Galina had no desire to dance, and she recalls "crying bitterly with fear" when she was first taken to the Mariinsky school when...
Commissioned by the National Actors' Guild to do a huge, 127-ft. mural for the Jorge Negrete Theater on the subjects of "Tragedy," "Comedy" and "Farce," Siqueiros was one-third finished before the guild's horrified Secretary-General Rodolfo Landa saw what Old Party Member Siqueiros was up to. By "Tragedy," it turned out, Siqueiros meant "the aggression of the government against the workers." A blazing blue-eyed soldier is slugging a striker while near by a mother weeps over the body of a youth draped in the Mexican flag. Sketched out on adjacent walls were Siqueiros...
...purposes of later horse trading, the committee as usual gave no dollar figures. But Dave McDonald, who this week opens negotiations with steelmakers for contracts to replace those expiring June 30, predicted that his 1,250,000-member U.S.A. will take home "an even greater agreement" than it won in 1956 after a five-week strike. That pact, says the industry, boosted steel wages and benefits by some 75? an hour to the current average...