Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film-the original book, biographies of the performers, reports from correspondents on the making and makers of the picture, even handouts. Thus, when he wondered how some Japanese film makers got the effect of blood gushing from a samurai victim's chest, a report from the Tokyo bureau enabled him to write in his review of The Idiot (May 17): "Mifume's sword trips a valve concealed beneath his opponent's kimono and opens a tank containing a gallon of vegetable oil, iron oxide, water and chocolate sauce under 40 pounds of pressure. Spfluurrroooooooooosh!" He composes...
...island laboratory for Marxist revolution, Fidel Castro's Cuba is the place where stern Communist discipline meets Fidel Castro's quixotic Latin temperament. To assess the experiment, TIME'S Buenos Aires Bureau Chief Gavin Scott, traveling on his Canadian passport, first visited Havana 17 months ago. Last week he returned from a second two-week trip to Cuba. A summary of his report...
Observing the FDA investigation were researchers from the National Bureau of Standards, the National Cancer Institute, and four universities. Even with such impeccable scientific credentials, the report is not likely to go uncontested. Krebiozen has strong emotional appeal and powerful political supporters (among them, Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas), and one of its most passionate promoters, Physiologist Andrew Conway Ivy, stubbornly insists that "creatine isn't Krebiozen. We're going ahead as in the past." But before long, the other secret of Krebiozen may be found: the National Cancer Institute is scrutinizing the records of 507 patients treated...
...Children's Bureau of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare made a disheartening announcement last week: the U.S. death rate for infants under one year of age did not improve by a single percentage point during 1962. While the U.S. figure remains stuck at 253 first-year deaths for every 10,000 births (a toll of 100,000 babies a year), other countries are cutting their death rates and outstripping...
More babies today are strong enough to be born alive, but not to survive. But for most of U.S. infant mortality there is no such comforting explanation. The unpleasant statistics, said Mrs. Katherine B. Oettinger, the Children's Bureau chief, are largely the result of lack of medical care for women during pregnancy, especially among the Negro, Puerto Rican and Mexican populations in the big cities...