Word: branch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Special Branch (political) police searched for him everywhere, regularly swooped on his dowdy little home in Orlando township, searched bus stations and railway terminals. But towering (6 ft. 2 in., 245 Ibs.), affable Nelson Mandela sped from one hideout to another. Often he telephoned newspapers with defiant statements against the government; once he even gave a television interview to the BBC. Last February he traveled to a Pan-African congress in Addis Ababa and returned unnoticed...
Last week Truman was on hand to lead a crowd of 30,000 in singing Happy Birthday as Hoover, marking his 88th year, returned to his grass-roots birthplace at West Branch, Iowa (pop. 1,053), to dedicate his own library, the fourth presidential library created by Congress (others: Roosevelt's at Hyde Park, N.Y., Eisenhower's at Abilene, Kans.). But on this occasion, an ex-President did more than ribbon-snip. Speaking "as the shadows gather around me," Hoover took the United Nations to task. The world organization was racked by the "disintegrating forces" of the Communist...
...manufacture automatic spits. He also started a six-story chick hatchery in Bavaria. (But he still buys most of his birds from the U.S., which supplies Germany with $30 million worth of frozen chicken a year.) Jahn has opened Wienerwald restaurants in Belgium, Austria and The Netherlands, will soon branch into Switzerland...
...demands that Blasi surrender his fort. But pride is Blasi's stand-in for honor, and he demands some elaborate Italian form of face-saving military etiquette. Nonsense, says Niven, holding out for unconditional surrender. While the British major is practicing imaginary golf strokes with a curved tree branch, the entire Italian garrison bolts through the fort's rear gate. Before long, the two commanders get their troops mutually marooned on an island, and mutually ambushed by hostile Africans. The film's humanistic argument, never preachy and never entirely convincing, is that folly brings out the brotherhood...
...Swiss banks that are rich in foreign reserves regularly deposit their dollars in London-which already seems destined to become the financial capital of the Common Market. London banks, in turn, relend the Eurodollars in Italy and Japan, where interest rates on foreign trade credits are particularly high. U.S. branch banks in Europe, eager to get into the profitable trade, have begun to court Eurodollar deposits by paying higher interest rates on them than is permissible...