Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history-making Schuman Plan to pool West Europe's coal & steel resources -little more than a dream two years ago, a far-off scheme initialed by six hesitant foreign ministers a year ago-became a fact. Already ratified by France, Germany and the Benelux nations, it was approved by Italy, sixth and final member...
Italy, which mines less iron ore than tiny Luxembourg and depends on its neighbors for nine-tenths of its coal, has everything to gain and almost nothing to lose from the pool. Despite heckling by the largest membership of Communists in any Western European legislature, the Chamber of Deputies passed the Schuman Plan by a handsome 265-98 majority. Next step: the appointment of the nine-man High Authority to start the plan rolling. If all goes well, Western Europe should have a common market for coal, iron and steel by spring next year...
Dorothy Arnold, sometime actress who divorced Joe DiMaggio in 1944, was worried. Joe and their nine-year-old son, Joe Jr., had been seen frolicking at Hollywood's flossy Bel Air Hotel swimming pool-and Joe's friend, luscious Cinemactress Marilyn (Clash by Night) Monroe, was also there in the unlikely role of young Joe's governess. Dorothy went to court to ask that Joe be ordered to stop taking the boy to places that are long on liquor, short on other children. Marilyn merely said: "I want to love and be loved more than anything else...
...Faced with a federal court ruling that Negroes must be admitted to the Kansas City (Mo.) Swope Park swimming pool, the city's park board voted unanimously not to open the pool...
...envoys make their cynical pledge of peace with France. Last week, the cupids watched over another scene of hope; the Foreign Ministers of France, Italy, West Germany and Benelux were signing the Treaty Establishing the European Defense Community, the military equivalent of the Schuman coal-and-steel pool. When (and if) ratified, it will weld 400,000 armed Germans into a supranational European Army, responsible to NATO's new Commander Matt Ridgway. Ancient Dream. At 5:12 p.m., the six Foreign Ministers, flanked by the U.S.'s Dean Acheson and Britain's Anthony Eden, made their...