Word: branche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That evened the score with Vesper, but it didn't settle anything. Taking up an offer from the Gillette Safety Razor Co.'s German branch, Vesper agreed to enter the Ratzeburg Regatta and race once again against the powerful West German crew. Last week, on a windless lake close to the little (pop. 12,123) town of Ratzeburg near the Danish frontier, Karl Adam's husky boys got off with a fast-chopping 50 strokes a minute, built up a one-half-length lead before slowing the pace to 41 strokes. At times, the Vespers pumped away...
...battlefields of Viet Nam, knowing the Vietnamese language may be as important to a U.S. soldier as his accuracy in firing an M-14. Supplying American military advisers there with the right words is fast becoming the primary mission of what its graduates call "Lingo Tech": the West Coast Branch of the Defense Language Institute, located at the Army's historic Presidio in Monterey, Calif...
Operated for all the services by the Army Department, the institute had its modest beginnings in 1941 as an Army intelligence course in Japanese, now has five schools across the country. Of these, the oldest and by far the largest is the branch at Monterey, which trains up to 2,500 military personnel a year in 27 languages and 33 dialects, in courses that range from a twelve-week quickie in Vietnamese to a full 47 weeks in Chinese, Russian, Arabic and some 13 other languages...
This fall, as a branch of the university, Charlotte expects an enrollment of 2,000 commuting students and a faculty of 84. With its future growth seemingly assured, the big question for the campus now is: Will Miss Bonnie, who is acting chancellor, be appointed permanently? Although her sex and her lack of an earned doctorate might be considered handicaps by some, Miss Bonnie, now 58, is unconcerned. "Nobody here is worried about the future," she says, "and I least of all. We are not here to elevate ourselves, but the institution...
...Ontario Mines Minister G: C. Wardrope summoned Toronto reporters and confirmed the find. By 10:20, reporters at a Texas Gulf press conference in New York were phoning in their stories of the find. At 10:29, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith flashed the news to 140 of its branch offices...