Word: bureau
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Appearing at a Better Business Bureau banquet in Chicago, Goldwater told 1,800 people that "I have my political hat on tonight." Then he laced into the Kennedy Administration, saying that the New Frontier has produced "1,026 days of wasted spending, wishful thinking, unwarranted intervention, wistful theories and waning confidence." The alliteration was admirable, but Barry proved once again that he delivers a formal speech with woeful woodenness...
...tourists were chosen for the trip by the USSR Bureau of International Youth Travel, which based its selection on profession and on geographical distribution. In Cambridge this week, the Russians are living in homes of Harvard and M.I.T. faculty members where there is at least one Russian speaker. Only two of the Soviets speak English...
Beginning next February, the U.S. cost-of-living index will include the cost of dying, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has announced. Bestselling Author Jessica Mitford and all the current furor about the high cost of dying had nothing to do with it, insisted Bureau Assistant Commissioner Arnold E. Chase. Bureaucracy doesn't move that fast. Over a year ago, said Chase, the bureau decided to add the cost of funerals to the 300 items included in the monthly index, along with 50 other new additions. Among them: legal expenses, installment credit, hotel and motel rates...
...York Times, the word dynasty has a special meaning. Since Adolph Ochs took over the paper in 1896, it has stayed firmly in the family, handed down through three generations of descendants. And so last week, when Arnaldo Cortesi retired as the Times's Rome bureau chief, the paper could say goodbye with a special sadness. A member of the Cortesi family had represented the Times in Rome for 60 years...
...Cortesi to Geneva, Mexico City, and finally to Buenos Aires, where he won a Pulitzer Prize for his bold coverage of the repressive Perón regime. In 1946 he went back to Rome. Cortesi's successor: veteran Times Staffer Milton Bracker-who reopened the war-shuttered Rome bureau in 1944 and two years later handed it back to Arnaldo Cortesi...