Word: branch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third inning, and the 2nd Air Division Cobras held a 6-1 lead over the Advisory Group Support Branch in their night game at Pershing Field, the U.S. military's softball diamond outside Saigon. In the stands, 150 partisan American fans-soldiers, sailors, embassy civilians, wives and children-booed and cheered. Suddenly, two explosions under the stands sent shrapnel slicing through the planking, shearing the leg off a G.I., hurling jagged splinters like missiles into the crowd. Amid the wreckage, two soldiers lay dying, 23 other Americans dazed and injured...
Even if changes in the rules gave new influence to men like Senator Clark, the ability to exploit this influence would suffer from the continuing growth of the Executive branch, from the growing demand by constituents that Congressmen act as their liaison with the Executive department, and from the increasing amounts of time and money that must be spent campaigning for re-election...
...information that Ranger sent back has yet accounted for the failure of its TV cam eras. "We're still studying it," said Director William Pickering of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "I'm trying to leave the boys alone." Whatever the reason,the failure shook every branch of U.S. space bureaucracy. Detailed information about the moon's surface is desperately needed to guide the design of moon-landing vehicles. "We must have close-up pictures of the moon's surface," said one high space administrator. "We're not going to commit a man to make...
Ready for Sponges. Principal agency for commercial arbitration in the U.S. is the nonprofit American Arbitration Association, founded in New York in 1926 with an imposing list of sponsors, including two future Chief Justices of the U.S., Charles Evans Hughes and Harlan Stone. With branch offices in 18 cities, the A.A.A. last year arbitrated nearly 1,000 commercial disputes. Several industries, including textiles, printing, rubber and shipping, maintain their own arbitration systems...
...nine years he has been mayor, Chicago has begun the most comprehensive urban renewal program in the United States. But city-wide planning may result in local discontent. Daley's voice sharpens when he discusses a small group of citizens who refused to make way for a new branch of the University of Illinois. "Everyone wants public works somewhere else besides their own block. We have a majority government and a minority shall not hold up a needed project," he asserts...