Word: membership
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Earnest, persuasive Communist organizers spread out through Caracas slums last week while Red intellectuals addressed classrooms and civic clubs. Their aims: trebling party membership, raising a $150,000 fund to finance party newspapers, and running an intensive "educational, political and ideological campaign among the Venezuelan masses." At a round-table meeting in Caracas, Communist Boss Gustavo Machado sat down cheerily with the leaders of Venezuela's four other parties. His aim: to get an important hand in naming a single unity candidate for President in the November election. Pouring into the political vacuum left by the January overthrow...
Infiltrating. Party membership stands at 26,000, plus a sizable number of secret members who are busily infiltrating the other parties. Cells are working hard in schools, unions and virtually every civic, professional and business group. A member of the Caracas city council is a Communist. So is a member of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, the vice president of the Student Federation, the dean of journalism at Caracas' Central University...
Stimulated Sightings. Questioned in Switzerland, Dr. Jung was astonished at the misuse of his famous name. While investigating the saucer myth, he said, he corresponded with Coral E. Lorenzen, director of A.P.R.O., and good-humoredly accepted an honorary membership, but he did not authorize his listing as the Bulletin's consultant in psychology...
Nobody worried about increasing the membership beyond the present 870 or so, though the chamber seats only about 250: after all, fewer than a hundred regularly show up, and some Lords never have. Last week, after her ministers agreed on possible candidates, Queen Elizabeth named ten new male life peers and four women. The peeresses, who, with brand new titles, will take their seats in November...
...home missions. "For this deep malady, we need some deep X-ray therapy that we have not found." Agnosticism, he complained, is flourishing in Britain in place of the great religious revival for which Methodists so fervently hoped. Last year the number of new Methodist church members (current membership: 739,000) fell to the lowest level in 13 years; some 100,000 children stopped attending Sunday schools. Every year, for the last twelve years, the total number of ministers has declined; it fell by 276 during the past year. There is a shortage of 5,000 preachers in rural areas...