Word: memberships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Inclination. Like Czechoslovakia, Poland has been due for some top-level changes, but the chance that reforms will automatically come with them is dim. The last influential figure from a never strong liberal wing, Philosophy Professor Leszek Kolakowski, was booted from party membership two years ago. President Edward Ochab, tired and almost blind at 62, is expected to retire in time for the Polish party conference late next fall, and some observers think that Gomulka may lift himself upstairs to the presidency, allowing a younger man to undertake party chairmanship...
...Exhibit Format" books and paperbacks are selling quickly. Brower has edited most of them. The Coop can't keep Sierra Club posters in stock. The Club counts a growing number of allies in Congress. And since a run-in with Internal Revenue over its tax-exempt status, its membership has been growing by almost 1000 a month, "probably." Brower says, "because anyone who gets in trouble with the tax men finds he has a lot of friends...
...moment, there is no formal membership in the Union, but proposals have been made for either a list which members would sign or a token donation to the Union, which would entitle donators to membership cards...
...antiwar sentiment has become something of a national obsession. An anti-U.S. Swedish Committee on Viet Nam, headed by Economist Gunnar Myrdal (TIME, March 15), claims a membership of 600,000 Swedes, nearly one-tenth of the population. Last month Myrdal's group staged a torchlight parade that brought 6,000 marchers into Stockholm's snowbound streets. In a move that is highly unusual for a technically friendly government, the marchers were led by none other than Erlander's heir apparent, Olof Palme, 41, the Education Minister. Swedish-American relations have become so bad, in fact...
...Kris Kringle smile, his Katzenjammer accent and his snow-white hair, Professor Herbert Marcuse of the University of California's San Diego campus seems too charmingly ge nial to be a revolutionary. He coos over the fine fur of his rust-colored cat, Freddie, and holds a lifetime membership in the San Diego Zoo, where he affectionately favors owls, elephants and hippopotamuses. Yet whether in Berkeley or Berlin, today's youthful radicals, who are challenging the most basic premises of industrial society, increasingly turn to the writings of the aging (he will be 70 in July) German-born...