Word: branche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Massachusetts Democrat Endicott ("Chub") Peabody proposed a thorough reorganization of the executive branch to give the Governor greater power, called for "a partnership for progress between Governor and legislature, between Democrats and Republicans, between government and the people." He urged an end to the "critical self-analysis" which "we in Massachusetts have raised to the level of a genius for self-destruction." The mild applause at speech's end had an ironic ring, since Peabody had just angered many of the legislature's top Democrats by recklessly urging the dumping of veteran Democratic House Speaker John Thompson...
...Bondy, who had introduced coeducation in Germany. The Roepers joined him in Switzerland, where he and his wife opened a trilingual school; later they set up a U.S. branch (now the Windsor Mountain School, Lenox, Mass.); the Roepers then opened their own school in Detroit. In 1956, concerned about neglect of gifted kids, the Roepers decided to make it a place where "intellectual ability has prestige...
...Pigs: ''The advice of those who were brought in on the Executive Branch was unanimous, and the advice was wrong. And I was responsible...
...anger was the fear that the Government would meddie in every labor settlement, clamp down on every price rise, and thus discourage all businessmen from undertaking any expansion or modernization. Said Chase Manhattan Bank President David Rockefeller: "The steel episode demonstrated the tremendous economic power that the executive branch of Government now wields, and that it is prepared to wield it hard and fast. It seemed to imply that the price structure was going to be shaped not by the laws of supply and demand, but by the Government's feelings.'' (Asked last week on his hour-long television interview...
...which wins the U.S. no friends in Africa, is a common-sense group called the African Scholarship Program of American Universities. Developed three years ago by David D. Henry, former admissions dean of Harvard, A.S.P.A.U. now links 24 African countries with 213 U.S. campuses. By working with the African branch offices of the African-American Institute, it seeks to solve the key problem: selecting the right students for the right campuses before they go to the U.S. Last week Director Henry issued a report that should stir pride all over Africa...