Word: secretariats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other church is comparable to it. It includes some 1,500 dioceses, 2,500 bishops, 500,000 priests, nuns and brothers in religious orders, with some 100,000 of them serving in the Church's missionary areas throughout the world. Into the brocaded offices of the Vatican Secretariat of State, cables carry news from its nunciatures around the world. To this organization, nothing can be unimportant, be it a new philosophical school in France or new playgrounds in an American diocese. It must deal with God and Caesar, with salvation and with society, with Freud and Marx, with hydraulic...
...Communist International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, which represents 97 unions in 73 countries, tossed a monkey wrench toward the machinery of Moral Re-Armament, the nondenominational, untheological, polite revival movement that evolved out of Frank Buchman's old Oxford Group. A report prepared by I.C.F.T.U.'s secretariat accused the Moral Re-Armament movement of interfering "with trade-union activities and [making] anti-trade-union efforts, even to the extent of trying to found 'yellow unions.' " M.R.A., it said, was undemocratic: "Buchman does not build up his movement from below . . . but from the ranks of leaders...
Premier Matyas Rakosi, a bullet-headed Bolshevik with a 35-year record of service to the party (including 15 years in jail) and a longtime intimate of Stalin, was demoted to membership of an eleven-man politburo and a three-man secretariat, modeled after the new Russian-type organization. Into his place as Premier stepped Imre Nagy, 57, a Moscow-trained Hungarian Communist of only slightly less experience. But the significant change was in policy, not in personnel. With a smiling Rakosi taking a back seat behind the rostrum, new Premier Nagy told a stunned Parliament of the changes that...
Eggs & Blocks. In Chandigarh's government complex, Le Corbusier shows off more of his latest architectural tricks. He plans a long, slablike Secretariat of nine stories, resting on thin, concrete columns and topped by an enormous, egg-shaped water-storage tank. Chandigarh will also have a High Court and an Assembly building, both under immense parasol roofs-huge, butterfly-shaped affairs supported by concrete columns, which will act as shields against the sun eight months of the year, umbrellas against monsoon rains for the other four...
...houses have "gone up across the dusty plain; another 2,000 are to be finished next winter. The main road system has been carved out, the parks are marked off and trees are being planted. The basement and first floor of the High Court are finished; work on the Secretariat is expected to begin next month. By 1956, says Le Corbusier, Chandigarh should be complete to the last detail...