Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...front of a dingy social hall on Manhattan's Lower East Side last week, police cars prowled and reporters fretted. Inside, after some 60 other New York halls and hotels had refused them talking room, the top leadership of the U.S. Communist party-its "surface" membership down to about 8,500 from 80,000 in 1944-was holding its first national convention since 1950. Prime purpose of the four-day, closed-door session: to select a new national committee and to heal the three-way split in party ranks that had followed Moscow's "downgrading" of Stalin...
Both boards offer membership in an organization doing a worthwhile job, where one can daily bask in the results of his efforts. The CRIMSON offers challenge enough to produce people like James Bryant Conant '14 and Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, both presidents of the CRIMSON who went on to become presidents of other worthwhile organizations. But one can also relax in the democratic excellence of the many social functions...
...prominence in her field brought Mrs. Gaposchkin the honor of membership in the British Royal Astronomical Society. In this country, Mrs. Gaposchkin, who was naturalized in 1931, is a member of the American Astronomical Society, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...
...floors contain a number of bedrooms for visiting members and the 20-odd permanent residents of the Club. Since the Club does not have a very large non-resident membership (about 1000 out of the 3890 total membership), the hotel part is not usually filled. The rooms are mostly singles and doubles; there are only three rooms for married couples. All the walls are covered with old prints of the College...
...another Middle Eastern voice, that of natty Crown Prince Abdul Illah of Iraq, was raised in the fresh Washington harmony. Like Saud, with whom he met after seeing the President, Illah was speaking for a bloc-Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Iraq-which is already closely allied with the West through membership (with Britain) in the Baghdad Pact. Altogether it was a concert of Middle Eastern voices that seemed at last to triumph over the clanking dirge from Egypt's Nasser (who nonetheless still speaks with the most influential single voice in the area...