Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GAVIN SCOTT, our Buenos Aires bureau chief, was sipping a pisco sour in Santiago and planning to attend the inauguration of Chile's new President when the news of trouble began to come in from Bolivia. That country's Vice President was in open rebellion against the government, and other military men were siding with him. With his knowledge of Bolivia, which is part of his over-trie-mountains territory, Scott knew that the government there needed support of the military to continue in power, and recognized the situation as a symptom of serious difficulty...
...details of the satellite safari are, of course, handled by state-run tourist agencies. The payoff comes from "shooting fees"-each type of game bird or animal is assigned a price tag, which varies according to size, age and trophy value. At the end of a shoot, the tourist bureau tots up the value of game shot, and the hunter forks over. In the Koprivnica area of Yugoslavia last spring, a Düsseldorf status seeker shelled out $12,500 for a 660-lb. European brown bear. That was just a warmup; Koprivnica gamekeepers are carefully pampering an even bigger...
...course, pat as this all may sound, it can only be speculation. As one bureau chief said, with more feeling than profundity: "In naming and replacing Cabinet officials, there's absolutely no custom, no tradition, no nothing...
Clicking Counters. Except for describing the bomb as weak, U.S. authorities at first released no figures, and the Weather Bureau, which traced the radioactive cloud, reported its directional progress only, making no comment on its intensity except to say that it was not strong enough to be at all dangerous. But in bomb-bitten Japan, where radiation watching is something of a national hobby, rooftop Geiger counters started clicking ominously. Scientists caught rain water to measure its activity, and jets brought samples down from the sky. About 30 hours after the explosion the radiation count at Niigata, 180 miles north...
...cargo ship. Catherine (Eddie's niece) falls in love with the younger one--blond, a singer, weak, a maker of dresses. "The guy's not right," Eddie cries, and soon he is obsessed with breaking up the match. At last, he anonymously reports the illegal entry to the Immigration Bureau...