Word: union
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some sort of popular basis for his government. With his soldierly suspicion of all old-style politicians, he had decided to begin at the bottom. In last week's balloting Egyptians and Syrians elected 39,364 local councillors. These councillors would become members of Nasser's National Union, which, he insisted, is "not a single-party system but the framework within which the revolution now beginning will take place." Local councillors will choose provincial councillors, who in turn will elect a General Council for the whole United Arab Republic. From this council President Nasser himself will select...
Since he keeps the power to appoint the Assembly, Nasser's National Union only slightly modifies his present dictatorship. But he evidently intends that the local councils will take over some responsibility in municipal affairs, which have been absolutely controlled by the central government from the days of Ottoman Turkish rule. Says one Western diplomat: "The National Union is the first 5% installment on democracy...
...Lake Michigan shore front to watch the royal yacht Britannia steam into harbor, escorted by seven warships and saluted by more than 500 small craft, including two Chinese junks. U.S. Air Force and Navy jets thundered across the sky; aerial torpedoes exploded parachutes carrying the Stars and Stripes and Union Jacks...
...plugged "other stories and pictures on pages 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, n, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 22, 24, 25." The once Anglophobic Tribune (whose late proprietor, Colonel Robert McCormick, suspected that Rhodes scholars were British agents in disguise) flew the Union Jack from its tower. As the royal couple acknowledged greetings from a welcoming party of seven Midwestern Governors and 40 mayors, pressing throngs surged forward, fairly overran the 2,000 city police who were assigned to guard the Queen. "That's a lovely billy-I'd like to borrow...
Great Is My Country (Sovexportfilm) is the Soviet Union's loaded propaganda weapon sent along to accompany Russia's cultural exhibition (TIME. July 6). Filmed in a washed-out Red version of Cinerama called Kinopanorama, featuring a record-breaking-and superfluous-total of nine stereophonic sound tracks. Great Is My Country's 1½-hour barrage turns out to have been fired by a small bore...