Word: branch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Memory Fades. A showdown was bound to come, and last week Strauss proved that if he was not loved, at least he was needed. The autonomous Bavarian branch of the C.D.U. was split between a conservative Catholic wing and a liberal Protestant faction, and to heal the breach, an appeal was made to Strauss, a Catholic, to run for minister-president (governor) of Bavaria in November. Deliberately, Strauss let it be known that he was homesick after all, and perhaps it would be nice to return to Munich...
...Doodle. Architect Netsch of the Chicago branch of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill began working on the chapel in 1954 when SOM got the job of designing the academy. But unlike other architects who have been dotting the country with churches of all sorts of imaginative shapes, Netsch had to do far more than satisfy one specific congregation, and one creed. He not only had to build a private place of worship for the cadets, he also had to create a national monument. Furthermore, his building would serve Protestants, Catholics and Jews. A single-spire motif would imply one religion...
...money into FHA-insured home loans to offset their own increased costs. In the elbowing for new business, there is a danger that the banks will sign up an increasing percentage of bad mortgage risks. Confides a leading West Coast banker: "Again and again I have to tell my branch managers that I would rather have a soundly conceived mortgage at 5¾% than one at 6¼% which goes bad." Unless the branch managers take this advice to heart, today's overambitious mortgages will create tomorrow's walkaways...
...talking about the importance of Hollywood as a branch of the armed services. Pictures about the military can touch off avalanches of enlistment. They polish the image, lift morale. A common soldier sees a movie and decides he's Tab Hunter...
...Congressman Pike) were annoyed at the Administration's arm twisting. Said the American Farm Bureau Federation's President Charles B. Shuman: The outcome was a victory for "farmers, consumers and taxpayers," and for "constitutional government" too. "The American people should know the extent to which the executive branch of Government sought to bully or buy votes with political pressure. It's reassuring to know that a bipartisan majority of the House was able and willing to resist this shameful interference with the legislative process...