Word: branche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sculptor Crawford endowed his Armed Liberty with every cliche available-an olive branch, a wreath of wheat and laurel, the customary sword and shield. "These emblems are such.'' said he confidently, "as the mass of our people will easily understand." But somewhere along the line the olive branch was dropped, and for the head wreath Crawford substituted a liberty cap in a tribute to the freeing of the Phrygian slaves in ancient times. This was too much for Secretary of War Jefferson Davis. As a result, part of an eagle with a lot of feathers was scrunched...
...first farm speech of the campaign. It was aimed not so much at farmers' problems as at Richard Nixon and unpopular Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, Nixon's heaviest political burden in the Farm Belt. Said Kennedy: "Their candidate, they say, has experience in the executive branch. He has participated in its decisions. He has shared in its responsibilities. He has been educated in its programs. When it comes to agriculture, I can only say that disaster has been his experience and Benson has been his teacher." The basic rule of Kennedy's farm-vote strategy...
...little Comintern of the Western Hemisphere, Havana has also become a sort of branch office where Communists and their collaborators check in. Recent visitors to Havana range from Mexican Artist-Communist David Alfaro Siqueiros (see Mexico) to a couple of Costa Rican banana-union bosses who stopped in en route home from Moscow. The effect of this spreads all over the map. In Managua, Nicaragua, students rioted, burned the U.S. military attache's car, demanded that Roosevelt Avenue be renamed after Augusto Sandino, Yankee-hating Nicaraguan rebel of the '20s. In Ecuador, students and white-collar workers formed...
Economist Carroll comes of a pioneering California family: one branch sailed around the Horn, the other crossed the continent by oxcart. At 25, he was both an assistant professor and an assistant dean at Harvard's business school. In World War II the Navy put him in charge of recruiting all officer candidates. At 32, he took on the deanship of Syracuse University's sagging business school. He remade the school, went on to do the same job at the University of North Carolina. In 1948 he was called on to help organize the $3 billion Ford Foundation...
...baseball Galbreath is also looking for a champion. He plunked down $400,000 in 1946 to become a member of a four-man syndicate (another member: Bing Crosby) that bought the ailing Pittsburgh Pirates. Four years later he got control (70%), took over as president and brought in Branch Rickey as general manager. Rickey signed up hundreds of young players, but the cure was slow. In the past decade the Pirates have usually finished way down, and Galbreath tossed in $1,500,000 to make up losses. This year things are different. At week's end the Pirates were...