Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Butcher of Budapest." The butcher, accompanied by Russia's ranking woman Communist, Ekaterina Furtseva, was on his way to Rome to lay down the line to the eighth congress of the Italian Communist Party, which until the events in Hungary claimed 2,130,000 members (probable current membership: less than 1,500,000). Suslov is the least known of the top half dozen Kremlin leaders, but what is known of him is not endearing: he is a flinty, ascetic Stalinist, a specialist on the satellites, who arrived in Budapest shortly before the Soviet crackdown began...
...leading contenders for the presidency of the HYRC is the club's treasurer, Thomas A. Stalker '58, who controls the money and membership cards of the group. His opposition has organized into a movement to strip him of his control over membership cards, in the past a key factor in elections...
Even admirers of Lott were distressed about his endorsement of the newly founded November Front, with its obscure aims and oddly mixed membership, including career army officers, opportunistic politicos, labor leaders, left-leaners and outright Communists. The front's avowed purpose is to block any attempt by opponents of the Kubitschek administration to overthrow the government. But Kubitschek & Co., far from rejoicing in the front's support, regard it with a wary...
...Scouts. If youngsters will work and hike and study to earn Scout merit badges, why can't they be induced to read for similar rewards? To each of its chapters, L.C.A. sends free buttons, pins, banners and certificates. After reading four books, a pupil gets a plastic membership button. Six more books bring a bronze-coated honor pin, and eight more bring the gold-plated life membership button. L.C.A. makes no attempt to dictate what books are to be read, lets local teachers and librarians improvise on the basic program as they wish. Examples of how local chapters work...
...Santa Cruz, Calif, the library has given out 1,000 L.C.A. membership pins, estimates that the club has boosted the town's reading by one-third...