Word: bureau
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...with Layering. "Inside the department, our principal problem is layering. When I read a telegram coming in in the morning, it poses a very specific question, and the moment I read it I know what the answer must be. But that telegram goes on its appointed course into the bureau and through the office and down to the desk. Then it goes from the action officer back up through the department to me a week or ten days later, and if it isn't the answer that I knew to be the answer, then I change it at that...
Lance Zavitz, Graham's news bureau chief, said yesterday that the minister's Boston press conference on February 16 will be of major concern, but he refused to discuss details...
...HOUSTON Bureau Chief Mark Sullivan first set foot on Texas soil in August 1959, when he crossed the Red River near Denison and was somewhat disappointed to see that the Texas side looked the same as the Oklahoma side. In the 4½ years since, he has been in virtually every corner of the state, even to Wink, Waxahachie, North Zulch, Buffalo Gap and Muleshoe. What he has found, as he reported for this week's cover story, is that "there are few if any generalities that can be applied to the state as a whole." Writer Ed Magnuson...
...talk about coexistence." Rockefeller recalled an experience in 1945, when he was an Assistant Secretary of State attending the U.N. organizational meeting in San Francisco. At that time, he said, he was the only Assistant Secretary of State there who was briefed daily by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
There had been good reason for skepticism. The 1959 announcement of the world's biggest world's fair was greeted with a who-needs-it attitude by many of the nation's best-heeled potential exhibitors. The Paris-based International Bureau of Expositions huffily refused to recognize Moses' $500 million gambol in the meadow as a proper world's fair on the grounds (among other reasons) that there can be only one world's fair per country per decade, and Seattle was it. But the big corporations came round, and some nations skirted...