Word: branch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most significant paper presented at the Conference was by Jacob Siegel, chief of the Census Bureau's National Population and Estimates branch. He showed that one-tenth of the Negro population was missed in the 1960 Census and that among young Negro males the rate was as high...
Nearly every major university today has its own academic press-a branch of publishing that seeks to bridge the gap between the world of scholarship and an increasingly educated public eager to find out what the scholars have to say. "We publish the smallest editions at the greatest cost," says Yale University Press Director Chester Kerr, "and on these we place the highest prices and try to market them to people who can least afford them. This is madness...
...scenes in Portia's Belmont, Ed Wittstein has designed an outdoor garden setting dominated by an enormous tree branch with leaves of -- you guessed it -- gold. Portia appears in a peach gown (designed, like all the other costumes, by Jose Varona) and carrying a parasol. It is not long before we realize that this Portia, in the hands of Barbara Baxley, is a thoughtless, superficial woman, and probably frigid to boot. Miss Baxley's nasal and mindless mode of speaking doesn't help much, either; she constitutes no improvement over Katharine Hepburn, who was so disastrous a Portia...
...Democratic defectors. After all, Administration spokesmen pointed out, the G.O.P.'s success in resisting a raise in the debt ceiling was hardly compatible with its inability to win substantive reductions in the programs that necessitated the raise. As Wilbur Mills sees it, those in the legislative branch of government who opposed increasing the national debt limit were in the position of the man who gives his wife a charge account at a store and then declines to pay her bills...
...Shalit, "After repelling the planned Arab invasion of Israel, we are now preparing to welcome the friendly invasion of visitors from all parts of the world." Greece's Olympic Airways last week issued an invitation in an ad that showed a Boeing 707 draped with an olive branch and quoted Isaiah: ". . . and there shall be war no more...