Word: branche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a third means for remodeling the vice-Presidency. The vice-President's only current Constitutional duty--that of presiding over the Senate--might be abolished by Constitutional amendment and the vice-President permitted to serve in any office in the executive branch. Thus the man elected vice-President could be appointed Secretary of State, Attorney General, Director of the Bureau of the Budget, special Presidential adviser--or to any other office the President and he thought wise. At the very least, if the chief executive felt his number two man was not fit to hold any high office...
...Security First National Bank branch in Los Angeles' International Airport Center looks as gay as a country club. The round pavilion with glass walls and a cookie-cutter roof juts out from a circular pedestal, and might be overlooking the swimming pool and the 18th hole instead of the corner of Century Boulevard and Vicksburg Avenue. But by some medieval quirk, Welton Becket & Associates has designed the entrances as bridges over a moat...
...Great Western Savings & Loan Association's new branch building in Gardena, Calif., is thunderously massive without being forbidding. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, it is all roof and piers. A great flat slab 112 ft. square floats 20 ft. above the glassed-in banking space; supporting it are eight gigantic piers, like upended paving blocks...
...congressman did, however, advocate changing the Presidential Succession Act to place a member of the executive branch third in the line of succession. He contended that the House leader should not be forced to divide his attention, between legislative and executive affairs...
...average 1964 auto includes 70 Ibs. of aluminum, up 7 Ibs. from two years ago. Reynolds is working on car wheels and an engine made of aluminum. Alcoa is marketing portable buildings that can be zipped together or taken apart in hours, are especially suitable for branch banks, temporary schools or mobile offices. The electric power industry is a particularly attractive area for marketing light metal; Reynolds supplied the cable for a 350-mile power line looping through West Virginia and Virginia, and Kaiser sold the first all-aluminum transmission tow er to Florida Power Co. Aluminum is going into...