Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Protestants have good reason to get upset. They are faced with a steady and alarming rise in Roman Catholic membership and power in the U.S. Attacking Catholicism is hardly a solution. Instead, Protestant churchmen might try preaching the Holy Bible and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. If this were done, Protestantism would again have appeal as true Christianity, and Roman error would naturally be unable to cope with the light of Truth...
Amid all of Geneva's disappointments, one solid agreement was reached. Dulles and Molotov, meeting privately, agreed to new membership in the United Nations for 17 nations, four of them Communist. The package deal, in which Britain and France concurred, would break nine years of deadlock and increase U.N. membership from 60 to 77. Russia promised not to veto the West's list: Austria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal and Spain. In return, the U.S. would not veto the Russian candidates: Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania. The U.S. also, agreed to abstain...
...bosomy barmaids painted in flat, low-keyed colors, has kept Artist Spencer a storm center. Harrumphed Fellow Artist Sir Winston Churchill: "If that is the Resurrection. I can contemplate with considerable equanimity the prospect of eternal sleep." But it has also brought Spencer fame, if not riches, including membership in the Royal Academy and the order of Commander of the British Empire...
...remilitarization of Germany within the framework of the Western Alliance has created new obstacles to the solution of the German problem."-We are not going to unify Germany anyway right now. Its membership in NATO is as good an excuse...
...failure came not from a lack of interest, but rather from a combination of organizational errors that channeled student interest into a windless cove. With a potential supporting membership of nearly 1000, the new "political club forum" has a fine opportunity to found a successful parliamentary group. Assuming general support from all the political clubs, the new parliament will have the advantage of sustained membership as well as plans designed to evade the major weak points of the Athenacum...