Word: branche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week, is based firmly on the 15th Amendment. More important, it is aimed precisely at the barricades that have delayed quick action in the past. Significantly, most of the power to act in voting cases would be moved out of the courts and into the hands of the executive branch. The bill would slam hardest at its biggest targets -those states with the most outstanding records of voter discrimination...
...Years to Four. The Baltimore doctors insisted that dentistry was properly a specialized branch of medicine, requiring knowledge of anatomy, physiology and pathology. For their school, which has long since become part of the University of Maryland, they decided on the revolutionary step of setting up educational standards similar to those already existing for medical training: either two years in the dental college or one year of dental training after a year in medical school...
...Boston, a spokesman for the Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Committee said that if the Washington Branch of SNCC decides to hold a demonstration in the capital, the sit-in in the Federal Building will end and all demonstrators will be sent to Washington...
...cattle grazing. In the east, near Francistown, Serowe and the tiny, torrid new capital of Gaberones, rainfall permits some crops, mostly maize, sorghum, cowpeas, pumpkins and tobacco. Only a single railroad, 394 miles long, and a highway connect the north and south of the protectorate. East-west roads branch off this central spine, but typically peter out into sand within 40 or 50 miles. A few mining companies are probing Bechuanaland's deposits of manganese, copper, silver and gold, but it will be years before they pay off-if they ever...
...Reception Line, etched in somewhere between Life and Fate. Lloyd Hand is the son of a steelworker who began as a laborer for Sheffield Steel (now part of Armco Steel Corp.) in Alton, Ill., became a rolling-mill supervisor, and was sent to the company's new branch in Houston when young Lloyd was ten. Lloyd was the first member of his family to attend college. He worked his way through the University of Texas and ended up as president of the student body...