Word: branche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bare Branch. It was the President's first trip outside the North American continent since entering the White House, and it was organized with the characteristic Johnsonian gusto for the unexpected. A compelling though unacknowledged reason for the sudden decision was the opportunity it gave the President to steal the spotlight from the Fulbright committee's televised hearings on the war. But there were other motives of greater consequence. The President wanted to galvanize the lagging pacification program in Viet Nam-and thereby show such critics as New York's Democratic Senator Robert Kennedy that...
...average enrollment of more than 1,000. At Iowa, which set up a pioneering religion department in 1927, courses now attract 3,500 of the university's 16,000 students. The 1½-year-old religion department at the University of California's Santa Barbara branch has five fulltime instructors and 600 students, including 20 majors...
Hudgins' job now is to find enough money to lend, especially since he plans to open a branch in Bedford-Stuyvesant, New York's other big Negro ghetto. To help attract new deposits, he preaches Sundays in Harlem churches. His invariable sermon subject: the virtue of thrift...
Sacramento's Hell's Angels, a branch of the Los Angeles organization. When the state attorney general cracked down on their rampaging rallies, Miles protested. "The stories spread about our wild sex and marijuana parties," he said, "are exaggerated. If we even tried, the cops might swoop down and bust it up. They harass us, they spread lies and call us bad seeds." Then last May he hauled down the Sacramento Angels' emblem-a death's-head wearing a helmet and wings-and departed for Oakland to seek "a better life," free from "police harassment...
...James Lee Goddard, 42, whose most recent duty has been as an assistant surgeon general of the U.S. Public Health Service and chief of its famed disease detective branch, the Communicable Disease Center. Earlier he did a good job while on loan as surgeon to the Federal Aviation Agency. What he wants of Goddard, said Gardner, is to "give this agency a new burst of life...