Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Watching such vignettes in the Southeast Asian powder keg last week, Hong Kong Bureau Chief McCulloch mused that "covering Laos is like being Alice in Wonderland-surrealistic, exasperating, frequently incomprehensible but often utterly delightful." A lunch with the cover subject, General Kong Le, in his headquarters village of Vang Vieng was a study in the country's need as well as its plenty. It was served on a table covered by a red checked tablecloth "with so many holes in it that it must have been riddled by a shotgun." But no one needed to go away hungry from...
More impressive than Mulcahy's flashy tests are some sober statistics compiled in recent months by various state authorities. A survey made last year by Illinois' Bureau of Traffic reported that the death rate of compact and small-car drivers was double the death rate of other passenger-car drivers. A similar report by Maine, published in April, showed a fatality rate for persons in compacts (defined as cars under 3,000 lbs.) that is 51 times as great as that of full-size cars. Studies of the California Highway Patrol found that small-car occupants suffer...
...This cold front is a pretty slow ther Bureau. It will hang over the mover," said the man from the Wea-Hub like a dark gray cloud all through...
...early-morning prediction should raise his wetting streak to two days. Things were looking relatively bright for the Classmates until about 8 p.m. yesterday. During the day, less than a tenth of an inch of rain had fallen in the Boston area. Drought conditions still prevailed, the Weather Bureau maintained...
...Roman Catholics, which has been fanned anew by Buddhist demands that a former Catholic army officer who had served under the late President Diem be executed for ordering troops to fire on Buddhists demonstrating in Hue last May.* Last week the progovernment head of the Buddhists' political bureau, Thich Tarn Chau, resigned, charging other monks with trying to stir up trouble. The resignation meant increasing influence for another leading monk, Thich Tri Quang, who enjoyed refuge last year in the U.S. embassy, but who is considered antigovernment and potentially neutralist...