Word: branch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard University Society of Masochists--IAB branch--reports to the fourth floor of the University's antiquated athletic facility tonight for the opening performance of the Society's darlings--the Varsity basketball team...
...years, the balance between the President and the Congress has shifted not once but several times. During some periods-the entire generation after the Civil War, for example-the legislative branch has overshadowed the executive; at other times, particularly during a war, the White House has been predominant. Most of the 20th century has seen the President in the ascendancy. Last week the Senate Foreign Relations Committee attempted to redress the balance somewhat, approving unanimously a report calling for a congressional curb on the President's power to commit the country to foreign military ventures. Quoting authorities ranging from...
Confronted by persistent allied military pressure, North Vietnamese infiltrators are finding their old southbound routes to be increasingly hazardous traveling. The DMZ and the South China Sea coast have been virtually sealed off, and the Ho Chi Minh Trail's Laotian branch is being steadily pounded from the air. That leaves only Cambodia as a relatively bomb-free route into South Viet Nam. This kind of end run is hardly new to the Communists, who have often used Prince Norodom Sihanouk's neutral kingdom as a gateway and a sanctuary. But the rising intensity...
GRAY concrete cliffs rise on a ridge above the Ontario woods 20 miles from downtown Toronto. This is Scarborough College, a new branch of the University of Toronto and John Andrews' only standing building. Another will rise behind Mem Hall in the next few years: Gund Hall, the new Graduate School of Design...
...McNamara's much-ballyhooed computer efficiency and the extraordinary attention he gave to his department, he also influenced the operations of the entire Executive branch more than any of this predecessors. He spearheaded President Kennedy's drive for the 1963 nuclear test-ban treaty, decried the refusal of the rich nations to expedite the development of the poor ones, and was a behind-the-scenes force in federal civil rights and poverty planning. In short, he felt that American defense consisted of more than nuclear hardware, and American prosperity more than a high growth rate and stable price index...