Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many experts had believed, for example, that membership in a gang was a primary cause of juvenile delinquency, but the Gluecks discovered that nine-tenths of the delinquents show their earliest anti-social symptoms before the age of eleven, whereas boys do not usually join gangs until they are in their teens...
...Foreign Relations. Congress should authorize U.S. membership in the proposed international Organization for Trade Cooperation and in the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency. "The world has so shrunk that all free nations are our neighbors. Without cooperative neighbors, the U.S. cannot maintain its own security and welfare." Besides keeping up military assistance, the U.S. must continue to give "aid to our friends in building more productive economies...
...Geneva conference that ended the Indo-China war left unsettled the status of the Communist-directed movement called Pathet Lao (estimated membership: 6,000), whose olive-green "resistance" army dominates two of Laos' twelve provinces. Because the leader...
...body will be considerably less than that, but will be a potent force among the 2,000,000 Orthodox Jews in the U.S.-not by weight of numbers but of influence; it claims to include in its 150,000 membership a solid majority of the U.S. Orthodox rabbinate. A.R.Z.O. will try to strengthen Jewish religious life in the U.S., is especially concerned with expanding Hebrew schools and training more Hebrew teachers. The organization will also raise money to support religious schools and settlements in Israel.* Elected president of the A.R.Z.O. was Russian-born Rabbi Isaac Stollman of Detroit...
...nation which likes to think of itself as 160 million individualists, but is filling up with a new generation that is more than half in love with easeful life. This generation, thinks Whyte, has deliberately lowered its sights to a safe, sound, specialized job within some "company family" and membership in a suburban group where nothing is split but the split-level home...