Word: branche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaker Frank Shea talked on South America and the Middle East. He was in the psychological warfare branch of OWI in the Middle East during the war, later went into the Balkans as a State Department coordinator for the U.S. Information Service ("As if anyone could coordinate the Balkans"). He was later TIME Bureau Chief in Buenos Aires, where he spent two days "in one of Juan Peron's jails for his stories on the confiscation of La Prensa (TIME, March 12, ?951). In his talks the thing that impressed him most, said Shea, was how well informed...
Everybody knows about the Eisenhower Administration's struggles with members of Congress. Perhaps more important in the long run is a hidden struggle inside the executive branch of the Government. This is not the too-familiar rivalry between presidential appointees; the Eisenhower Administration, so far, has been remarkably free of high-level backbiting. The significant struggle is the quiet war of the President and his appointees to get control of the vast governmental machine, manned by civil servants (and military men) who operate under protective rules designed to keep them partially independent of their nominal bosses...
...patronage drought is relatively a very minor factor in the present struggle. Far more important is the question of whether the men who bear the constitutional and legal responsibility for running the executive branch will, in fact, be able to get into their hands the power to run it. Eisenhower promised the people reduction in the cost of Government, decentralization of power, a stronger and more coherent foreign policy and a more efficient defense policy. Whether he succeeds or fails in these promises depends largely, perhaps mainly, on his ability to get control of the permanent establishment...
After three weeks, students begin to drill from tape recordings by themselves. In class, Sweet goes on with the slides, adding more case endings and turning to prepositions. "Puer ignem ramo facit," says Sweet, showing a boy making a fire with a branch. "Puer ignem cum fratre facit," he says, showing a boy and his brother lighting a fire. "Quis facit?" he asks. "Puer," says the class. "Quid puer facit?" "Ignem." "Quomodo facit...
...17th century Shrike (left) is a much later, secular offshoot of Zen drawing. With the swift and eager precision of a swordsman, the artist evoked all autumn in a fierce little bird perched atop a dead branch. Looking into their catalogues, gallerygoers noted without great surprise that Miyamoto Niten was in fact a samurai as famed for his swordsmanship as for his brushwork...