Word: branche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crusty. Near Olive Branch, Miss., hanging helplessly from the top of an oak tree after parachuting out of a disabled Air Force plane, Airman Third Class Maxwell S. Prothro pleaded with a staring farm wife to bring rescuers, was told: "I'm busy. I'm cooking bread...
...gives Latin American affairs. The State Department's Latin America chief ranks with ten other Assistant Secretaries of State, below two Deputy Under Secretaries, two Under Secretaries and the Secretary of State himself. Two decades ago, the equivalent post ranked third. Some critics even think that a special branch of government, perhaps roughly similar to Britain's Commonwealth Relations office, is needed to administer the U.S.'s Latin American responsibilities with the necessary understanding...
Speaking to the Law School Forum, Hodges declared that the Court's judgement departed from the traditional idea of judicial precedent, placed too much emphasis on social and psychological data, misused a power that belonged to the legislative branch, and want beyond the bounds on judicial self-restraint. He derived these four points from what he called a "prominent lawyer's ideas on this issue...
...near Baton Rouge, a road construction gang one morning last week discovered the body of a woman: beside her 1960 Renault Dauphine lay Dr. Margaret Rosamond McMillan, 38, bludgeoned to death. The crime shook the campuses of Louisiana State University, both in Baton Rouge and at the New Orleans branch, where "Rosie" McMillan was an assistant professor of biology. The events that followed shook L.S.U. even harder...
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 19--The proposed third major league, the Continental, does not plan to operate in 1960. When it does function it will pay reasonable compensation for territorial rights, President Branch Rickey of the proposed loop assured minor league chief George M. Trautman today following a remonstrative telegram from the latter...