Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rush things, has been blueprinting a self-improvement program calculated to restore the paper's waning market. Last week some of the details of the plan were out. By March 1 the paper hopes to enlarge its worldwide staff by 10%-20%, double the five-man Washington bureau and, most important, refocus its emphasis on news significance. "There will be a certain resemblance to what a newsmagazine does," said Editor Canham. "We want more intensive comment rather than someone sucking his thumb and pontificating about something...
Mandatory Reports. "Child abuse is not a new phenomenon," says Katherine B. DeHinger, chief of the U.S. Children's Bureau. What is new is the increase and violence in the attacks. Under the stress of modern life, more and more parents apparently vent anger and frustration on the easiest targets at hand. But while it is relatively easy to recognize a case of child beating, it is relatively difficult to nab the child beaters. They invariably deny responsibility, often take the victim to a different doctor after each successive beating. Since the infant can rarely speak for himself...
...head-on attack on the problem, the Children's Bureau has drawn up a model state law requiring all doctors and hospitals to report suspected child beatings immediately to the police. Willful failure to report orally and by writing as soon as possible would be a misdemeanor. (Beating itself is a felony.) At the same time the model law grants immunity from civil or criminal liability to anyone reporting "in good faith." Already 21 states have enacted some form of the law. The New Jersey assembly did so last spring, for example, after being horror-struck by the case...
...police. "This means viewing the case in terms of possible prosecution of the parent," says De Francis. But parental guilt is often impossible to prove, and the very threat of punishment may deter parents from getting medical help. As Mrs. DeHinger puts it: "The Children's Bureau does not want to put brutal parents in jail so much as to save the child...
...comparison shoppers. They roam competing stores, spying out new styles, feeling the materials and comparing prices. Whenever they find that Macy's is being undersold, they order the store to lower its prices. Not even Straus can countermand their instructions. Neither can he contradict Macy's own Bureau of Standards, the arbiter of the store's conscience. In a backstairs laboratory that looks like a bathroom choked with chemistry sets, the bureau puts 7,500 products per year (including all of Macy's own brands) through tests of fire, water, high pressure and simulated wear. Recently...