Word: branch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sold for 5? per copy. For whatever U.S. audience that could be reached, a New York Castro-phile named June Cobb translated it into English. U.S. publisher: Lyle Stuart, a Manhattan publisher of erotica and Castroite propaganda who has also served as treasurer of the New York branch of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee...
...current exhibition does nothing else, it will have served a useful purpose in reintroducing Bresdin. He had microscopes for eyes. In his Holy Family Beside a Rushing Stream, the three figures sit in a dense forest in which the smallest branch of the smallest tree can be seen. In the distance lies an entire city, and beyond that a mountain and beyond that the sky. The fastidiously constructed lithograph is less than 9 in. tall and 7 in. wide; yet the viewer can stay lost in it for minutes. It is not only the work of a gifted technician...
...over Eichmann; although the Israeli state did not exist when the crimes were committed, the judges argued that Israel now represents all Jews. "The people is one and the crime is one," they said. "To argue that there is no connection is like cutting away a tree root and branch and saying to its trunk: I have not hurt...
Tail Chasing. Unilever is a coalition of once bitter competitors. The English branch was started in 1884 by William Hesketh Lever-later Viscount Leverhulme of the Western Isles-who left his father's wholesale grocery business to open a soap factory with his brother. With intensive advertising and merchandising that was ahead of his time, Lever made his Sunlight brand the world's leading soap and gathered together an industrial complex based mainly on products from fats and oils. Meanwhile, in an overlapping segment of the fat and oil industry, two Dutch margarine-making families...
...Pony Express. Nowadays the task of handling the mushrooming affairs of the Deutsche Bank keeps Abs on a man-killing schedule. Much of his decision making is done on airplane flights, during which officials of one Deutsche Bank branch after another accompany him in relays like Pony Express riders, a new team coming aboard with its problems at each stop. But Abs has also found time to spearhead an increasingly potent campaign for an international "Magna Carta" that would discourage governments from arbitrarily expropriating or discriminating against foreign capital...