Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Forming a speakers' bureau and asking every possible group in the Boston Area--women's clubs, service organizations, schools, and churches, for example--if they would like to hear a discussion of the Vietnam question by one person or several with different opinions...
...Personal Attack. With that credo, the Globe set vigorously to work when it learned of President Kennedy's intention to nominate Morrissey, his father's longtime friend, to the federal bench. After the Globe's Washington bureau dug up the details on Morrissey's three applications to the Massachusetts Bar, other papers were quick to pick up the story. Soon after that, Jack Kennedy quietly dropped the whole idea, and the story died for two years...
...double his salary with extracurricular jobs shouldn't be here," says Brandeis Sociology Chairman John R. Seeley. A sociologist can command $100 a day as a consultant to industry, up to $90 a day as adviser to such federal agencies as the National Institutes of Health, CIA, Census Bureau, State Department, Office of Economic Opportunity, and Office of Education. Sociologist David Riesman (The Lonely Crowd) left Chicago for Harvard in 1958, not for money ("Any time I'm hard up I can give a lecture somewhere"), but because he was offered a special chair that would permit...
Susan Olson, dean of residence, will chair the committee, which will include Marjorie L. Russ, dietition; Mary D. Albro, director of the appointment bureau; one senior resident from each house; and the work chairman of each dormitory...
...below last year's disappointing 1,591,000, and Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler calls housing one the U.S. economy's few "sputtering" segments. Yet the home buyer has to pay at least 3% more than a year ago. Throughout the U.S., reports the Census Bureau, the median price for new houses has jumped in the past year from just under $19,000 to about $20,000. The rise is even sharper in big cities' from $24,400 to $27,100 in the pas year in the Chicago area...