Word: branch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Good Glove Man." After taking his bachelor of arts degree with honors in history, Pearson briefly stuffed sausages in the Hamilton, Ont., branch of Armour & Co. (he was later to be accused by the Soviet news agency, Tass, of starting his career in an armaments factory). Saturdays, he played third base for the semi-pro Guelph Maple Leafs. "No batter," says Teammate Dink Carroll, now a Montreal Gazette sports columnist, "but a good glove man." When promoted to clerkship in Armour's Chicago fertilizer works, he applied for, and got, a scholarship to Oxford...
Canada's economy, as every Canadian likes to say, is "basically sound." But its rate of unemployment (8.4% in February) is the highest of any industrialized nation in the West. Its fundamental trou ble is that it is a "branch-plant economy.'' Canada desperately needs a larger market than its 18.8 million home consumers...
McCloskey based his view of White and Goldberg mainly on the Court's 5-4 decision late last month in Gibson v. Florida Legislative Committee, in which Goldberg wrote the majority opinion and White dissented. The Court ruled in Gibson that Florida may not punish the Miami branch of the NAACP for refusing to produce its membership list for a legislative inquiry into communism. Such an inquiry, Goldberg held, violates the rights of free speech and association of the First and Fourteenth Amendments...
...Campus Senate, the legislative branch of student government at Ole Miss, voices of protest are constantly being raised. Were it not for outside pressures, both from parents and indirectly from the political powers in the state (operating through the two Jackson newspapers which make sure that the name of every student who publicly speaks out against state policies is printed in such a manner that the student will get crank letters and his parents will be asked to explain to the home folk), these voices would often constitute a majority...
...Catholic population (after Brazil), has none,* but one is in the making. This week in Rome, following Vatican approval of two miracles attributed to her intervention with God-one a medically inexplicable cure of cancer, the other a recovery from leukemia-Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, founder of the American branch of the worldwide order known as the Daughters of Charity, was enrolled among the beatified of the church. Attending the formal ceremonies at St. Peter's were more than 3,000 American pilgrims, including Cardinals Spellman and Ritter and 15-year-old Anne O'Neill of Baltimore, whose...