Word: branche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today she commands the field, with 115 models in Paris, and branch offices in Hamburg and London. Says Dorian: "I have just a logical American mind-it was like inventing the safety pin." Lucky, after her own model agency flopped, opened a modeling school, but few of her graduates even make the cabines, the stables of mannequins at top fashion houses (who earn only about $100 a month), and none have broken through into the $20-an-hour field of fashion photography that is the specialty of Dorian's girls...
...Printemps, but not the rest of Stravinsky." A late starter ("I admire people," says he, "who start shivering at the age of three when mother sings false"), Vandernoot first studied the flute, soon found himself slipping off into the woods to conduct an imaginary orchestra of trees with a branch for a baton. While in the Belgian army, he entered the contest for nonprofessional conductors at Besangon, France, and finished next to last. After that he settled down to study conducting in earnest, soon got his own chamber orchestra and began winning critical cheers. Vandernoot is as famed...
Every morning after a light breakfast of fruit and special chimp chow the chimponauts are given medical examinations and driven in a panel truck to the testing center of the laboratory's Comparative Psychology Branch. There they are taught to wear carefully fitted space suits and to tolerate being strapped for long periods on softly padded contour couches. They are taken up in stunting aircraft to get accustomed to sudden noise, vibration and G forces, and to learn what weightlessness feels like. Even before they have been hardened to all these physiological "insults," their psychological training has begun...
...concerned with the effectiveness of an animal in space," says Major Fred H. Rohles, chief of the Comparative Psychology Branch. "Before a man is lifted into space, we must learn whether an animal in space can perform tasks that it has learned on the ground. If the animal's sensory or motor abilities are impaired so it cannot perform these tasks, we must assume that a man suffering the same impairment will be ineffective as a monitor pf dials or as an accurate reporter of information...
...Trappistine nuns, the women's branch of the Trappists, produce four types of expensive candies (e.g., caramels, butter nut-munch) at St. Mary's Abbey in Wrentham, Mass., sell them at de luxe shops throughout...