Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This exultant shout marked the emotional peak of De Gaulle's 13,000-mile, ten-day campaign trip to persuade the 40 million inhabitants of France's African empire to vote for his new constitution-and thereby accept membership in a new "community of free states" led by France. When the general left Paris the week before, it had been to the accompaniment of ominous mutterings from native political bosses in the 13 territories of French Africa...
...gangdom seem puny and primitive by comparison, at least 10,000 youths are banded into 360 gangs. Members are mostly Chinese, though Malays, Sikhs, and Eurasians have lately joined. The young gangsters dress no differently from anyone else, but their shoulders or backs are tattooed with the signs of membership: a crucifix, a woman leaning against a palm tree, a kissing couple, an eagle clawing a snake. The biggest society, the "24," has 40 separate gangs; its chief rival, the "Zero Eight." numbers 30. Using the titles and ranks of the Chinese secret societies and tongs, the gangs have...
Under the Hood. Today in the mountain villages of New Mexico and southern Colorado, the hermanos (brothers) have 135 chapter houses called moradas, with a total membership of more than 1,200. Membership is open to all male adults, and most of the year the Penitentes seem no different from any other religious society of ardent Catholics...
...ultimate salvation of the country club may well be the same thing that, makes supermarkets a multibillion-dollar business: mass appeal at mass prices. Unlike the old-fashioned clubs owned by members, a new class of club is starting up owned by businessmen, who frankly aim at big memberships as the road to survival. In Dallas, eight new clubs have opened since the prewar era, and most of them run one membership drive after another. Four more are being formed. In Denver, the Pinehurst Country Club will open next spring on 300 acres to cater to the new class...
...arms. In the first completely undisguised commercial filming of a woman giving birth to a child, French Writer-Director Jean-Paul Le Chanois recorded a scene that would seem guaranteed to outrage maiden aunts, set 15-year-olds to snickering aloud, and increase the watch-and-ward membership twelvefold. Instead, the moment is one of wonder. The picture earned an M.P.A. Production Code seal and approval of the American Medical Association and the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency, will be shown throughout...