Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pondering its significance. In France, Premier Georges Pompidou recently complained before un meeting of the Society for the Protection of the French Language that it was really a bit much to arrive at Orly Airport and be told by the hôtesse d'air that le Welcome Bureau d'Air France was at one's disposal. And in Kenya, Economics Minister Tom Mboya, momentarily putting aside affairs of state, delivered himself of the opinion that Bonanza, shown on local TV, is exerting "a good influence on Africans. Good is good. Bad is bad. The hero always...
...military regime lifted the ban on TIME. Bangkok Bureau Chief Louis Kraar flew into Djakarta to witness the mopping-up operations of Lieut. General Suharto's troops and the radical political changes that the military were setting in motion. After two weeks, the door closed again and Kraar had to leave. In the sub sequent tense weeks of struggle between Sukarno and the army, we found other ways of keeping informed. This week's cover is the 23rd story that we have run on Indonesia since the attempted coup...
...Sukarno's pretty Japanese wife, were willing to talk to Kraar as they were to talk with Senior Editor Edward Hughes when he toured Indonesia last April. Kraar, who has spent eleven weeks in Indonesia since September, was joined by Frank McCulloch, chief of the Hong Kong bureau, and Singapore-based Stringer Dan Coggin. In a six-week, 6,000-mile swing, Coggin covered Java, Bali, Sumatra and Sulawesi. The correspondents' massive reports furnished the material for Writer John Blashill's story...
Intending to change the situation, the Civil Aeronautics Board's Bureau of Enforcement last week filed formal complaints against nine airlines: American, Braniff, Continental, National, Northwest, Pan American, Trans Caribbean, TWA and United. The bureau asked that the carriers be forced to close their "separate and unequal" facilities at major airports. A separate complaint against American was filed with the CAB by Herbert A. Goldberger, a Providence businessman, after he was denied admission last December to the line's special waiting rooms. "I felt like I'd been sent to the back of the bus," he said...
Assorted Affections. After his discharge, Royko returned to newspapering. He started out with a small North Side community paper in Chicago, then moved to the City News Bureau, which sent him to work in every corner of the city. In 1959, he got a job as a general-assignment reporter for the Chicago Daily News. There, his wry style made such an impression that he was offered a weekly column. Before long, former Editor Larry Fanning let him write a column three times a week; today he turns out an astonishing five...