Word: branch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson lurched forward for three steps, only to freeze motionless-one foot poised ludicrously in midair-as the sound stopped abruptly. In such quick, sporadic scrambles, Johnson covered 150 yds. before he spotted his quarry: a green-and-grey bird with red-hooded eyes, perched comfortably on a pine branch. Johnson's double-barreled shotgun shattered the morning, and the bird dropped. After six years of trying, the hunter had finally bagged his first Auerhahn-the plump European grouse (English name: capercaillie) so rare that it is verboten to shoot more than one in a lifetime, so elusive that...
Here, in short, is an appalling administrative weakness in the Executive branch, and it is interesting but of little comfort to speculate that Eisenhower created it. Quite possibly it was he who let the CIA establish and maintain its flourishing autonomy through his unwillingness to provide a distinct chain of command. But never mind that now; President Kennedy has concluded that it would be useless as well as unwise (the agency director has many friends on the Hill) to permit his investigators to revive attacks on the freres Dulles...
Spiritual Advance. "All the ravens seem to be perched on a single branch. We hear about 'the post-Protestant era,' 'the end of Protestant influence in the nation,' 'the retreat of Protestantism,' and so forth." On the contrary, declared Presbyterian Bonnell, "Protestantism in America is on ' the verge of a heartening spiritual advance...
...office's job was to "promote the cause of education." The aim was leadership, not anonymity, but Congress never provided sufficient funds. The commissioner now gets $20,000 a year, has a $13.8 million budget, one-third for research. Since 1953, the Office has been a minor branch of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. At times, it has seemed more responsive to Washington's big teachers' lobby than to the Government. Nobody was surprised when Lawrence G. Derthick, the last Eisenhower-appointed commissioner, stepped into the No. 2 executive job at the National Education Association...
East of the Lee Street, the River Street-Elm Street route would cross the river at approximately the same point, but would branch off to the east of Central Square. This route, also, might be harmful to renewal prospects. After crossing Massachusetts Avenue, it merges on the blueprints with a third route under consideration, Brookline Street, the favorite of the Cambridge Planning Board, the Chronicle, and various citizen groups...