Word: councilor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first his people called him "Show-boy." Then he became his government's Prime Minister. This year he became his Queen's Privy Councilor. His local admirers now also refer to him as First Citizen of the African Continent. But when it comes to titles, there seems to be no stopping Kwame Nkrumah, 50. Last week the Accra Evening News, one of the Prime Minister's more effusive admirers (it manages to run one or more pictures of him almost every day), announced that next March the people of Ghana would get a chance to decide...
This action followed that of the Cambridge City Council on Sept. 21 rejecting a motion by Councilor Joseph D. DeGuglielmo for a 30 day trial of the new street pattern. Backers of the proposal claimed it would relieve the traffic through Harvard Square. Buses and other vehicles going north to Arlington and North Cambridge would be able to cut across behind the Yard...
...TRADE TROUBLES in West Germany are growing as German firms refuse to abandon traditional sources to buy Soviet raw materials under 1959 trade protocol calling for 50% increase in Russo-German trade. Germans speculate that Soviets will recall their trade councilor in disgrace because of program's failure...
...Moslem mayor, and Moslems increasingly are taking over administrative posts. The bar of Algiers' Aletti Hotel today resembles a smoking room of the National Assembly in Paris; politicians and lobbyists outnumber hotel guests 3 to 1, and talk about their problems with surprising openness. One Moslem municipal councilor, who won election on the Gaullist right-wing U.N.R. ticket, says: "Do not be fooled by our labels; they are really flags of convenience. The threat of arrest still hangs over us. But we say what we feel...
...Ministry of Housing at last decided that Barbican should be turned into an oasis of apartment buildings, shops, schools and "open spaces." A year later the City Corporation set up a 16-man Barbican committee headed by a forward-looking city councilor named Eric Wilkins, 57. A team of young architects was hired to draw up a master plan for a combined residential, business and cultural center, largely for middle-class people who work in the City. Last week Londoners were trooping into Guildhall to view $56 million worth of possible things to come...