Word: branch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Binghamton branch, under the leadership of Dr. Raymond S. McKeeby, 49, a former flight surgeon, passed the word on Project MORE through the high schools, got hundreds of students to sign up for skull sessions on doctoring as a profession. From the most interested and promising, the doctors chose the 57 who went through last week's preceptorship program. From the Binghamton experience, and a similar pilot operation in Omaha, the A.A.G.P. will draw final plans for a nationwide Project MORE next year through all its 50 state chapters...
...tool. Up to now, Verwoerd has feared to risk unfavorable world opinion by openly muzzling the recalcitrant English press. But his flanking movements have had their effect. South Africa's free press must follow a zigzag obstacle course past ten punitive national statutes. The government's Special Branch, which serves as censor in everything but name, combs every issue of every paper for statutory violations. A government commission was appointed in 1950 with the avowed purpose of examining the country's newspapers-but its members often acted like thought police. The commission once rebuked an English press...
...Khrushchev's revelations about Stalin, but fear of exacerbating the already open wound forced its cancellation. Last week, after the 22nd Party Congress renewed the controversy, the pressure for public discussion was stronger than ever. Meanwhile, a second species of left-wing extremists made trouble for the orthodox branch of the party. Not long ago, Brazilian police investigating their militant Peasant Leagues in the poverty-stricken northeast found copies of Mao Tse-tung's famous guerrilla warfare handbook, translated into Portuguese, with illustrations in which Chinese faces had been carefully changed to Latin American faces...
...says Journal Editor Vermont C. Royster, will vie for space with the full spectrum of world events: "This will be a paper aimed at the intelligent reader interested in what goes on around him." If a preliminary trial run in Washington, D.C. proves successful, the Observer is likely to branch out into the same multiple publication as its parent. And it hopes to pick up much the same sort of regional advertising that underpins the Journal's four editions. Projected cost per copy: 25? for a 16-to 32-page paper...
...Sunday Express story about some British clergymen who deplored the assault tactics of door-to-door canvassers for two religious faiths: Jehovah's Witnesses and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). Thundered disgruntled Reader Beaverbrook: "Mormon missionaries represent an important and dignified branch of the Christian religion. Their people in Utah and elsewhere are good-living and God-fearing citizens . . . Paragraphs and interviews denouncing Mormon missionaries should not be given publicity in the Sunday Express" Said Sunday Express Editor Junor, who got the message: "The letter speaks for itself...