Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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France will set off its first atom bomb next year, the Paris business magazine Entreprise reported last week. Crowed Entre prise: "This will permit us to enter the 'atomic club' before membership is closed. Great Britain must resign itself to no longer being the sole nuclear partner of the U.S." From France's Defense Ministry came proud confirmation that work on the French bomb "is quite far along and we may expect tests in the near future...
...possibility that intrigues ecclesiastical handicappers: there may be more than twelve vacancies in the sacred college. In 1953 the Pope decided against enlarging the college's membership, but burgeoning church enrollment (nearly 500 million members claimed) and the Pope's policy in the 1946 and 1953 consistories of broadening the college's geographical representation may make necessary an increase of perhaps 20 members...
...Mohammed; the Babists broke with the Shiites over the successor to the successor; and, in more recent times (1863), the Bahais splintered from the Babists when Baha'u'llah proclaimed himself the true successor or Bab (literally, "gate" to Paradise). Last week the Bahais, who claim a membership of close to 10,000 in the U.S. (1,500,000 in the world), wrestled with a succession problem of their...
...Dunster House Committee has refused to grant a Student Council request that it give the Dunster Council Representative voting membership, Committee Chairman Eugene Lew '58 reported last night...
Committee members replied that they thought the Council's intentions were "good, worthwhile, and should be supported," but, they added, full membership is unnecessary for closer cooperation. A Council member should feel enough responsibility to his organization to attend House Committee meetings diligently if he is instructed...