Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME masthead this week appears a familiar name in an unfamiliar location. Home from the wars, coups and crises is veteran Correspondent James Bell to head our expanded New York bureau...
Last week, it wrote the Council asking that its traffic consultants perfect a second alternative to Brookline-Elm St. route. Pointing out that the Federal Bureau of Public Roads, which will finance 90 per cent of the Inner Belt, had tentatively rejected the railroad route some years earlier, the committee said...
Died. Arthur Sears Henning, 89, dean of Washington's press corps, the Chicago Tribune's softspoken, acid-penned bureau chief from 1914 to 1949 and close associate of the late Publisher Robert McCormick, whose high-cholered, ultraconservative views he usually reflected; of pneumonia; in Washington Henning knew every President since Theodore Roosevelt, classified him a "outstanding," Woodrow Wilson as "irascible" and Calvin Coolidge, extraordinarily enough, as a man who in private "would talk your arm off if you gave him a chance...
...over last August. But the biggest mess facing the new Secretary was in the Food and Drug Administration, the agency responsible for the purity and safety of the food, medicines and cosmetics that Americans buy. The mess had been building for decades while the agency rocked along, a cozy bureau for career men whose ambitions were as limited as their powers. Though there have been marked improvements since World War II, what Gardner inherited was an agency that had lagged far behind its fast-growing responsibilities...
...themselves. Things looked up for a while after Dr. Frances O. Kelsey became a heroine for keeping thalidomide off the U.S. market, and after Dr. Joseph F. Sadusk Jr., with a good record as a medical educator and a practicing physician, took over as head of FDA's Bureau of Medicine (TIME, March 13, 1964). But now the Kelsey faction is warring on Sadusk, who is also the target of Representative Lawrence H. Fountain's Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee...