Word: branche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that important branch of Russian political show business-public condemnation of the regime's enemies-styles have changed. Stalin's show trials specialized in public confessions followed by quiet executions in the cellar. Khrushchev generally dispenses with the deadly finale, but instead of letting his victims reveal their own past, he himself holds stage center and tells their stories for them. At this kind of monologue, Khrushchev and his friends at the 22nd Party Congress last week continued to prove themselves masterful. One by one, once famed party names were hauled out again and their misdeeds splashed...
Away from Heaven. In 1955 Mary Bunting was offered the deanship of Douglass College, the women's branch of New Jersey's state-run Rutgers University, and her decision was characteristic. She felt she had to show her children that people move on, even from "heaven." As it turned out, Douglass fascinated her. It was full of girls who were the first of their families to go to college-yet they really had no idea why they were there. Dean Bunting set out to promote "greater self-confidence. I didn't think these girls realized how able...
...responded to the adman's tune like the children of Hamelin, promptly made Reyno one of the top selling cigarettes among more than 200 West German brands. And German ad agencies promptly began copying the four-color newspaper process, which was introduced to Germany by the flourishing Frankfurt branch of the U.S.'s Young & Rubicam...
...Heaviest Responsibility. At an age when most successful executives are hopefully eying a vice-presidency, personable Tom Jones has rocketed to the top of an industry that bears the heaviest responsibilities ever imposed upon any branch of private enterprise. A curious conglomeration of aircraft companies, automakers, electronics firms and appliance manufacturers, the industry that has come to be called "aerospace" has as its prime immediate assignment the development and production of the weapons upon which the U.S. rests its hopes of maintaining its power and freedom. Beyond these here-and-now military needs lies another historic assignment-the creation...
Aerospace is a cerebral industry where Saturn stands for a product as well as a target; where "Aeronutronic" is not a nervous disorder but a new branch of the Ford Motor Co.; where one week's output from a major factory can be shipped in the tail end of a station wagon, and a cupful of sensitive components, such as microwave diodes, is worth $150,000. It makes men talk in superlatives. Says E. V. Huggins, executive committee chairman of Westinghouse Electric Corp.: "The aerospace business is the most mind-stretching, imagination-producing, forward-looking activity a company...