Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Eisenhower's top U.S. weatherman through the Normandy landings-he had clearly succeeded in bringing cooperation out of chaos at Canaveral. Already well liked by the press, the Maine-born general won new popularity at week's end by giving newsmen handsomely inscribed certificates of membership in The Galactic Order of Missileers, with unlimited bragging rights based on their "vast and detailed knowledge of all types of missiles...
...scale Soviet economic aid, said unofficial Warsaw sources. His party purge, which was supposed to shake out the old Stalinists and strengthen his leadership, has bogged down into a sort of cataloguing census. The blighting bureaucrats Gomulka hoped to get rid of have clung like leeches to their party membership while the workers who were supposed to be the base of the new party have streamed out. Disenchanted intellectuals by the dozen have torn up their party cards. Of the 14,000 students at the Warsaw Polytechnic, a rallying point of the October rising, only twelve remain in the Communist...
...started running his bylined weekly column and published a picture and thumbnail sketch of its author, the Cincinnati Dental Society objected that "Your Teeth" was a "weekly advertisement" and thus violated its code of ethics. Last August the dental society's twelve-man council voted to extract his membership card...
Last week the Cincinnati dentists held a closed membership meeting to hear Peter Garvin's appeal. By expelling him, argued Garvin, his fellow dentists denied him the constitutional right to "freedom of expression" (a right which is profitably exercised by such famed columnist-M.D.s as Chicago's Herman Bundesen and Walter Alvarez). Nor have dental society officials criticized the content of his columns, which frequently urge "consultation with your family dentist." By a margin of only five votes (79 to 74) Dentist Garvin's colleagues voted nonetheless to sustain his expulsion...
Real Fellowship. Glenview Community Church is 17 years old, and when Congregationalist Minister Robert Edgar went there in 1941, it had only 50 members in a community of 2,000 people. Today the community has mushroomed to 16,000, and the church estimates its adult membership at 2,000, with an additional 1,500 who have not yet joined but take part in church activities. Some 2,200 youngsters engage the full-time efforts of two of the four ministers-Methodist-ordained Clinton Ritchie, who handles the teenagers, and Baptist-ordained Theophilus Ringsmuth. who concentrates on the youngsters below...