Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lighter side, when he left Beirut in 1954 after three years as Middle East bureau chief, he was the subject of a tongue-in-cheek U.S. embassy cable to the State Department. Dispatch No. 439 began: "Plumpish, sunburned, middle-aging James Bell had been a man with a timely mission: to present the complex, rapidly unfolding story of the Middle East to TIME readers...
...that Bell is a stranger to the U.S. scene. After graduating from the University of Kansas, he went to work for TIME as Topeka stringer, later joined our Chicago bureau...
Working with Bell in New York will be Deputy Bureau Chief Nick Thimmesch, who will continue to scout New York politics; Peter Vanderwicken, whose speciality is economics; Marcia Gauger, who has been reporting business news; Christopher Cory, who concentrates on back-of-the-book stories; Rosalind Constable, who prepares a report on the cultural scene; Michael Parks and Robert Smith, who are general assignment reporters...
...bureau which Bell now heads is unique among the 34 that TIME operates around the world. In a sense, all 155 writers, researchers and editors working in the Time & Life Building constitute a news bureau in that they often do their own reporting. But New York has grown so big and complex that Bell's expanded staff is necessary to give the fullest coverage to the city he calls "the meeting place of the world...
...Italian government has amended taxes that discourage business mergers. In France, the Commissariat du Plan is setting up an interministerial committee to act as a sort of marriage bureau for companies that wish to get together. The British government announced last week that one task of the new Industrial Reorganization Corp. will be to sponsor "desirable regroupings." Spain's economic Development Plan calls for the "concentration of productive units." Common Market Commission President Walter Hallstein insists: "We must let more mergers go through...