Word: branch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charge of reforming the regulatory agencies, was named co-respondent in a divorce case. Filed by Washington Public Relations Man Joseph A. Todd, the suit charged that Landis had committed adultery during June and July 1961 with Todd's wife Pauline, mother of four and an Executive Branch secretary. Announced within hours of the divorce suit was Landis' resignation from his White House job-a seeming concatenation of events that presidential press aides said was purely coincidental...
...volume is still their stock in trade, and they sometimes seemed to be offering 25% off for rudeness. Big discounters such as the East's E. J. Korvette, Inc., New York's Friendly Frost chain, and Chicago-based Goodman's Community Discount Stores are opening new branches with piped-in music and fancier displays to shuck off "that warehouse look," adding such customer lures as charge accounts and home delivery. In the eight-story branch he will soon open on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, Korvette's Eugene Ferkauf will sell the usual discounted appliances...
...harmless, bunk. One man ordered a dog-show trophy, which he donated as an award for a rare breed; his dog won it only because the dog was the only rare breed in the show. In San Diego, a girl bought a beauty contest trophy at a Robbins branch store and awarded it to herself. "She said she hadn't won the contest," says Robbins, "but she'd be damned if she'd let anybody know...
Making Friends. The U.S. Government itself is confined to a surprisingly small share of student exchange. Last year it provided only partial sponsorship for only about 5,000 foreign students. The rest are left to the kind of private effort that Coombs calls "the people's branch of foreign relations." He means that making U.S. friends out of foreign students is almost entirely a challenge to individual Americans, from the college president who selects sanely and sets up solid orientation to the family that feeds and houses foreign students with courtesy and discretion...
...more actively into campus politics and thus have been chosen as delegates to the annual N.S.A. congresses that pick the association's officers. Last week, during N.S.A. 's 14th annual congress at the University of Wisconsin, the liberals were challenged for the first time by that small branch of awakened activism on U.S. campuses-vocal, intense conservatives (TIME, Feb. 10). The conservatives arrived with a dream: getting control of N.S.A. At best, they mustered only about 75 votes among the 500 delegates...