Word: branche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been fired up by handsome James J. Saxon, 49, who as Comptroller of the Currency supervises the 4,500 nationally chartered banks. "The commercial banking system needs rescuing," says Saxon grandly-and he has set out on what he considers a rescue mission by permitting national banks to branch out more freely than state banks, which are regulated by state banking commissions. By liberalizing branching policies, he aims to break the hold that many small-town and suburban bankers have on their areas. Critical state bankers charge that Saxon's expansion plans would cause many of them to fail...
Slice & Spin. Just as they cut tiny pieces of human tissue into microscopically thin slices to study the progress of disease, pathologists tend to slice up their own specialty. One main branch is called anatomic pathology, and its devotees concern themselves with structural changes in tissues, usually seen at autopsy. But it is also the anatomic pathologist who examines the piece of tissue from a patient still on the operating table and tells the surgeon whether or not it is cancerous...
...America needs a change," he declared. "Rocking-chair leadership isn't enough. The Republican Party is a party of principle, not the captive of a clan or cult of personality. This is not a party controlled by any one man's money. It believes in an executive branch that is an equal partner, not a ruthless boss; in a judicial branch that is equal and independent, that interprets laws but does not make them...
Molecular genetics, fastest-growing branch of all, uses the newest techniques of biochemistry to explore the extraordinary molecular structures that exist in every living cell and control its growth and reproduction. Hopes are high that this science will soon come to a complete understanding of life's basic chemical processes. But for all the activity that was reported at the Hague congress, there has been no important breakthrough. Progress reports were filled with the promise of discoveries yet to come. A sampling...
...siege of minority government. Last week Ottawa got a fifth political party when one of the splinters splintered. Le Ralliement des Creditistes the new party was christened, and its founding father was Real Caouette, the firebrand Quebec Chrysler dealer who has been the leader of the French-Canadian branch of the prairie-based, funny-money Social Credit Party. In last April's national elections, Caouette and his fellow French-Canadians in Quebec won 20 of Social Credit's 24 seats...