Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...master of the Kremlin, Palmiro Togliatti, 65, was sitting out the campaign for Italy's general elections, coming late this month. Luigi Longo, wartime Red partisan organizer, postwar street fighter and a recent visitor to the Kremlin, has taken over as acting party chief. But Communist membership is down from 2,500,000 to 1,700,000; one-fourth of the party's Senators and Deputies have been dropped as unsuitable candidates for reelection; the Communists are having a hard time finding vote-winning issues in an Italy basking in a record national prosperity; and they no longer...
...fear is that the bigger, faster jets will mean smaller airline fleets and thus fewer jobs unless they win the third-man spot. But the history of air travel has proved that each new advance inevitably leads to new increases all around. Case in point: the A.L.P.A. itself, whose membership has doubled in the past six years, despite the introduction into service of dozens of bigger and faster planes...
...Harvard Eisenhower Club has rejected the application of Frederic P. Claussen '59 for membership because of his "expressed hostility" to the "purposes and continued existence...
...conservative beliefs" and become "more liberal," Bernat claimed. Claussen called this stand "quite strange, since I am vice-president of an organization chartered by the Republican Party, of which Eisenhower is the leader. It is paradoxical that any club supporting Eisenhower should reject my application for membership." Like most of the HEC's 30 members, Bernat supports the Stalker-Peterson faction of the HYRC, while Claussen is a member of the Dawson group...
This action followed Bernat's announcement of a membership drive for the club...