Word: branches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regime would take at least a year to "purify" Greece before even thinking about elections. At week's end, the junta abolished Greece's Communist-front political party, the United Democratic Left, and declared that it would revise the Constitution to set up a stronger executive branch with more powers independent of Parliament...
Mihajlov, who has been ousted from his post as a lecturer in Russian literature at the Zadar branch of Zagreb University, represents a younger generation of intellectuals. Unlike Djilas, they have never had strong ties to the party and believe that it is too flabby to carry out reforms pledged by Tito. Mihajlov was convicted twice before, once for an anti-Soviet article, "Moscow Summer 1964," which was published in both Yugoslavia and the U.S. The reason for his latest trial is the publication abroad of two of his articles and a letter in which he outlined a plan...
...June 1965, at the request of Radcliffe and the Med School, the Police replaced the night watchman service patrolling the two campuses. The additions gave the organization responsibility for guarding the entire University, 24 hours a day. To meet new demands, the central headquarters in Grays Hall opened two branch posts, one in each of the new areas, and the force expanded from...
...going to die. But it worked out great." Tonis saw to it that all men learned the same basic skills, and the rotation included the 13 officers on the force (one captain, two lieutenants, and ten sergeants) who also take periodic desk assignments at Grays Hall and the other branch headquarters...
With half the legislature consisting of freshmen, the 188-year-old red-brick statehouse had no shortage of reformers in either branch of government. Even so, they treated the newly disinherited with due deference. Said Democratic House Leader Thomas Lowe: "I'm what you might call a bucolic reactionary from the Eastern Shore. These urbanites did not run over us rural people. They understood our problems, as we understood theirs...