Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...queries to bureaus around the world. The communications staff turned to the telephone, which, thanks to 24 wet-cell stand-by batteries, worked. First call was to Tokyo, where, with a 14-hour time lead, the week was well under way. Tokyo staffers copied the telephone queries for the bureau as well as those for relay to Hong Kong, Manila and other Far Eastern news centers. Calls to Paris, Bonn and London followed...
...mayor owns a newspaper," explains Editor Robert Hoyt, "the paper winds up making the mayor look good. This does not serve the needs of the community, and it really doesn't serve the needs of the mayor. He needs information and criticism more than he needs a publicity bureau. The same is true in the church...
Power is no more than the capability for achievement, it does not exist on its own. If Mayor Lindsay can employ his power to run the city as a modern-minded chief executive and not merely as its complaint bureau and top politician, he may well stir pride and kindle civic interest among New Yorkers. If he succeeds, he will not only restore the glory that was New York but immensely enhance its national political standing...
...such private projects leading the way, the Federal Government is also getting into the act by financing free legal services in 19 cities. The need is obvious. In Chicago, where the Government's effort is still mired in a bureaucratic swamp, the bar-run Legal Aid Bureau readily admits: "We only serve half the people who need our services." In Washington, however, the mainly Government-financed Neighborhood Legal Service Project has six thriving neighborhood centers serving 180,000 people. Of all its cases so far, 30.7% involve housing, 10.6% consumer rights, 8% welfare, 7.3% adult criminal matters...
This time Nero takes on the "whole, damn Federal Bureau of Investigation." He does it mostly because he is offered the biggest fee he has ever had, and this promises months and months of gourmandizing before he would need to go back to work. His client is a middle-aged widow who has sent friends and bigwigs thousands of copies of a book attacking the FBI. Ever since, the G-men have been following and harassing her. She wants Nero to make them lay off. The fat genius plunges in, following a tortuous, tightly plotted path until a nifty stunt...