Word: branche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longest-lived of all U.S. Vice Presidents (and older than any President lived to be), Uvalde, Texas' own John Nance ("Cactus Jack") Garner, turned 92 and didn't care who knew it. Gone were the cigars and bourbon and branch water ("striking a blow for liberty") that he gave up just before his 90th birthday. He is still quick to provide visitors with the wherewithal to strike their own blows, but his current personal quaff is just plain grapefruit juice...
...small colleges boast magnificent surroundings. Colorado is in the shadow of Pikes Peak. Washington State's Whitman (fine pre-med training) thrives near wheat fields and ski slopes. Other "unknown" colleges are in lively U.S. cities: New Orleans' Sophie Newcomb is the women's branch of Tulane University; and Washington. D.C.'s Trinity is a topflight Roman Catholic girls' school that emphasizes science and languages, including Russian and Chinese. New York City's Wagner College has a double feature: a hilltop rural campus on Staten Island with a sweeping view of passing ocean liners...
Africans & Astronomers. Michigan's Hope College, long a school for students of Dutch origin, now has a summer branch in Vienna. Ohio's Heidelberg College sends 15 to 20 juniors each year to its namesake university in Germany. At Ohio's Western College for Women, launched originally as a "western" Mt. Holyoke College, students focus each year on a different area of the world, spend the summer touring it. Western also specializes in Afro-Asian students, currently has the first Sudanese woman to study...
...indefatigable sightseer, the Primate toured the Garden of Gethsemane, where he plucked an olive branch from a tree alleged to have been planted before the birth of Christ, and viewed the Dead Sea Scrolls. Near the town of Nablus, Dr. Fisher, fortified with a strong dose of stomach salts, drank freely from Jacob's Well. (The archbishop, said his staff, was holding up well under the rigors of the Middle Eastern diet.) He looked at the ruins where Salome danced, saw the site where John the Baptist was beheaded. At the River Jordan, the archbishop refused to be totally...
...Kilgallen from the Times, the News quickly discovered that the $10 million purchase price provided no guarantee for picking up the Times's readership. Acting quickly upon rumors of the sale, the rival Free Press raided the Times's circulation department, hired away 125 employees ranging from branch managers to newsboys. As a lure to former Times readers, the Free Press also began printing an afternoon "family edition," which is being sent to the Times's old delivery stations. Goaded into action, the News has started to strike back, printing 400,000 extra copies daily...