Word: branch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...piece on "The Administration and the Left" Schlesinger delineates two distinct, historical strains in American progressivism. The "pragmatic" strain "accepts, without approving, the given structure of society and strives to change it by action from within." The "utopian" strain "rejects the given structure of society, root and branch, and strives to change it by exhortation from without...
...well-dressed, middle-aged man walked into a branch of Tokyo's Teikoku Bank wearing the armband of a municipal official. Claiming that he was a city health inspector, the man ordered the bank manager to summon all his employees so that he could give them a dose of antidysentery medicine. The employees gulped the potion, then collapsed in agony. From the open vaults, the medicine man grabbed about $185 in cash and disappeared into the street. Behind him, twelve people lay dead of cyanide poisoning...
Customs agents and Special Branch detectives charged with safeguarding the borders of the sprawling Rhodesian Federation have been run ragged lately. In the north, there is a steady traffic of white mercenaries and African soldiers from the routed Katangese army, who slip across the Congo line to peddle their weapons to eager white and black Rhodesians who may one day use them on each other. In the east, smugglers from the Portuguese colony of Mozambique make their way through the wild, mountainous bush to bring in dagga weed (marijuana) and take out gold stolen by workmen in Rhodesian mines. Last...
...separate branch of vanity theater consists of hobbyists who are whacking plays together as a form of avocational therapy. Last season, off-Broadway saw the do-it-yourself dramas of a policeman, a dentist and a chiropractor, not to forget J. I. Rodale, a millionaire dietary fanatic who contends that a major source of evil in the modern world is an overconsumption of sugar, a condition he believes to be dangerously prevalent among drama critics...
Taylor did a wartime stint as a dollar-a-year man (much of it in Washington procuring arms for the British), at war's end decided to branch out from brewing and began borrowing heavily to buy Massey-Ferguson stock. His fellow Canadians did not have much faith in Taylor; the betting at the Toronto Club was 5-50 that he would go broke. The odds looked prophetic when he soon overextended himself. But, with superb ingenuity and timing, he formed Argus so that he could sell its stock to raise money to pay off his loans. As partners...