Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939, German espionage agent entered this country, presumably on a reconaissance mission for the Nazi government. He made several contacts in Washington, then began a tour of cities along the East Coast. Intensely curious about the visitor's purposes, the Federal Bureau of Investigation assigned one of its own agents, Robert Tonis, to follow him. The German boarded a train for Boston, and Tonis, according to plan, waited for him at South Station. But as soon as the train pulled in, the spy dashed into a taxi, sped up Memorial Drive, stopped...
...some unidentified West German journalist who had the witting or unwitting help of the innocent or gullible D.P.A. In any event, the whys and wherefores of the case clearly did not intrigue the Russians. Despite D.P.A.'s apologies, the Soviet government closed the agency's Moscow bureau and expelled its single correspondent...
...Detroit's automobile design centers. Last fall Senior Editor Cranston Jones, who recalls that those closed doors have been bothering him off and on ever since he saw them at the General Motors Technical Center in 1956, proposed a color story that would get behind them. Detroit Bureau Chief Leon Jaroff tried the idea on the automakers and got one after another of them to agree. Next step was for Associate Editor Peter Bird Martin, whose assignment is color projects, to work out a specific plan for the story...
There are no figures as yet on the number of Cliffies applying to medical school this year, according to Kathleen O. Elliot, Dean of Radcliffe. Last year, three Radcliffe seniors went on to medical school, the Radcliffe Appointments Bureau reported...
...future the Bureau will do better to work with a few students effectively and refer some to other advisory agencies, rather than deal with many students less effectively. By thus limiting the size of its operation, the Bureau will have to formulate and report generalized knowledge about students' academic experiences to aid advisors and faculty at large. Hopefully, by the modest addition of just one more counselor next year, the Bureau will be able to continue its major role of student assistance in the quiet obscurity it thrives upon...