Word: branch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Socialist. His brother, Georges, two years younger than Raoul and now a physician in Nimes, remembers him as a bright student and as anything but austere. The brothers' friendly relations are not disturbed by politics, and even though Dr. Georges Salan, a Gaullist, was recently bombed by the Nimes branch of the S.A.O., he does not hold it against Raoul. "Until last April," he says, "He was as every French officer ought to be, that is, a straight military man without any political convictions...
When the money began to come in by the bags from his Room at the Top, British Novelist John Braine, now 39, became less interested in the Angry Young Mania of his compatriots, joined a Yorkshire branch of the Rotary Club. But by last week, he was once again ready "to retreat completely from a world which every day I find nastier and nastier." Anti-Bomb Activist Braine did not expect to be troubled by the big bad world for long. Reminded of his prophecy of last year that "there won't be a 1962," he alibied: "Perhaps...
...Lear's specific analysis of the operations of several voluntary health agencies is hardly more comforting. According to his article, James V. Lavin, president of the Massachusetts Branch of the American Cancer Society, divided his time between the Society and his own fund-raising agency which competed with it, receiving considerable income from both organizations. Several of Lavin's chief subordinates in the Society suffered from similar division of interests. Only through sustained pressure from a member of the board of directors did the Massachusetts Cancer Society make an even nominal change in this situation...
...results of such mismanagement were most unfortunate: of the $1,150,000 collected in the 1960 Massachusetts drive, $548,241 was spent for overhead. Further damaging evidence occurs in Lear's second article which reproduces the internal revenue form filled out by the Massachusetts Branch. This document, which even baffled a certified public accountant, contains the following figures: cost of operations--$1,368 (when the president's salary alone was $17,500), miscellaneous expenses--$599,752.33, cash on hand--$1,207,269.05 (in an organization which annually begs people for donations...
...Archabbey in Latrobe, Pa., is only 115 years old. But now they are bursting with new vitality-and new affluence. In all, there are more than 2,000 American Benedictines, almost one-sixth of the worldwide strength of that order, which is far and away the leading branch of Christian monasticism. The non-Benedictine Trappists have established eight thriving new monasteries in the U.S. since the end of World War II, increased in number from 293 to 1,018. In the past decade three other congregations-the Camaldolese, the Olivetan Benedictines and the Carthusians-have established their...