Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Premier. In office, Suhrawardy quickly shed his Nehru neutralism and his old Indian sympathies; instead, he supported Pakistan's membership in the U.S.-sponsored Southeast Asia Treaty Organization and the British-sponsored .Baghdad Pact, won the plaudits of Moslem Firsters when the U.N. made its strongest-yet condemnation of Nehru on Kashmir. In the touchy situation after Suez, he spoke up firmly to doubting Moslems on behalf of the Eisenhower Doctrine...
...around many a key city in the eastern U.S. last week, cement-mixers, supplying the foundation of the nation's biggest construction boom, lay silent on their jobs. The sudden silence came after strikes were called by 17,000 United Cement, Lime and Gypsum Workers (total membership: 41,000) in 70 of the country's 160 cement plants. With kilns cooling and stockpiles quickly dwindling, contractors laid off about 20,000 construction men in New York, paralyzing work on $400 million in highways, schools, hospitals, airport facilities, piers. In Pennsylvania, expressway construction stopped on a six-mile stretch...
...direction of British authority. When the Germans tried to win over Islam in World War I, the Aga Khan did much to keep his followers steadfast beside the British. A grateful Britain in return heaped him with imperial honors that ran all the way from a knighthood to membership in the exclusive Jockey Club, to which no Asian had ever been admitted. They were also behind his being named President of the League of Nations in 1937. Rich beyond calculating (or telling), conscientious enough to perform the duties he was born to without stinting, eager enough to seize...
Today, under Chief Scout Executive Arthur A. Schuck, 62, a Scout careerman, U.S. membership is over 4,500,000. The long pull from Tenderfoot to Eagle now involves programs in electronics, mechanics and TV repair and a course in atomic energy will soon be added. But for all the changes in the official Boy Scout Handbook for Boys, the basic aims of the movement are still those stated by Baden-Powell: "To help in making the rising generation, of whatever class or creed, into good citizens...
...members of the Normandie Avenue Methodist Church's congregation remained solidly white, and the 30-odd who went to services regularly were cool to the few Negroes who dropped in. Thirty churchgoers are not very many. In the hope of increasing church membership. Bishop Gerald H. Kennedy of the California-Arizona Methodist Conference decided to give Normandie Avenue a Negro pastor. District Superintendent Ray W. Ragsdale appointed 39-year-old Nelson Burlin Higgins Jr. A descendant of four generations of preachers, Higgins is a husky ex-athlete who went through Louisiana's Roman Catholic Xavier University...