Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well as political differences. Watching the steady growth of economic ties and the nascent sense of "European identity" in the six Common Market nations, Britain increasingly feels itself odd man out in Western Europe, and considers this not the result of British unwillingness to pay the price of European membership but the fault of Adenauer's and De Gaulle's alliance. Prime Minister Macmillan, seeing Ike alone at Chequers, was expected to spend some of his time deploring not Khrushchev's behavior but De Gaulle's, and urging increased U.S. pressure on De Gaulle to "reopen...
...fired. Pennsylvania's powerful Governor Dave Lawrence rebuked Butler for washing party linen in public, and West Coast Democrats were still shooting angry sparks because Butler had deleted praise for congressional Democratic leadership from a letter that California's Governor Pat Brown had sent in accepting membership on the liberal-hued Democratic Advisory Council...
...will no longer buy their pesetas on the black market. The liberalizing of imports and the streamlining of the whole process of giving out import licenses should drastically cut down on the profession of smuggling, which now accounts for one-fourth of Spanish trade. Most important of all, membership in OEEC takes Spain out of limbo and into a Western Europe progressing healthily while Spain has been deteriorating economically...
...ring at Blackfriars, hanging over the stalls in Covent Garden, sleeping under tent flaps, recording on canvas her impressions of the entertainment world. At 51 she was named Dame Commander, British Empire. Seven years later Dame Laura became the third female in 200 years to crack the hallowed full membership of the Royal Academy of Art. When the British government wanted someone to record the evil and drama of the Nürnberg trials after World War II, it chose Dame Laura...
...Ralph Bunche, Negro, Nobel Peace Prizewinner and United Nations Under Secretary, it was a peaceful moral victory. Only a week had passed since Bunche disclosed that his 15-year-old son had been barred from membership in New York City's fashionable West Side Tennis Club (in Forest Hills, Queens) because of his race (TIME, July 20). Club President Wilfred Burglund, the Manhattan public relations man who had told Bunche that the club excludes Negroes and Jews, resigned last week amidst public clamor for his singed scalp. Then the club's governors were moved to announce...