Word: bureau
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Some of the improvements petitioned for were a larger and lower desk ("this one is too high to type comfortably"), a pull-out shelf for a typewriter, doors for the closet, a low bureau, doors between the two single rooms, a pegboard wall, more lighting, no fluorescent lights, shelves over the desk, and molding from which to hang pictures. A few girls suggested that instead of two large bedrooms there be two small bedrooms and a large living room, but most people did not comment on the room...
THREE years ago, when Correspondent Marshall Berges was packing up to leave his assignment as head of the Detroit Bureau to take charge in Los Angeles, he dropped around to see Robert S. McNamara, then president of the Ford Motor Co. Berges felt that McNamara, as a former Californian, might well provide some pretty good guidance. One of the questions he asked was, "Who are the brightest men in California?" McNamara's reply was instantaneous: "Way up at the top of your list you'd better put Tex Thornton." Berges was not in California long before he shared...
...already cut more than $4 billion this year." Maybe so, said Burleson, but he had computed that new programs urged by the Administration would cost $17 billion over five years. "That's a figure I never heard," said Kennedy. Within an hour, Kennedy called back. The budget bureau, he reported, did not agree with Burleson. Politely, the two chatted on about taxes and economy in government...
While entering the Mineralogical Museum, smashing cases with sledgehammers and taking the gems, the thieves left two clear fingerprint specimens. The Federal Bureau of Investigation concluded that any of 17,000 people could have been involved in the crime. There were no other significant clues...
Harker himself is a replacement, sent up from Colombia after Harold K. Milks, then the A.P.'s Havana bureau chief, was expelled with such velocity that he had to leave most of his belongings behind. After eight months in Havana, Yves Doude, who represents the French wire service Agence France-Presse, is convinced that things were easier in his previous assignment in Communist Rumania. The other resident Western newsman in Havana, Alan Oxley of Britain's Reuters, Ltd., has been arrested 19 times since Castro took power...