Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bound to happen sooner or later. Though Robert Elson is TIME'S bureau chief in London, and his son John is TIME'S religion editor, they have had little chance to work together professionally-except as competitors. Last year, when Robert Elson was detached to write an article about Pope John for LIFE, Son John was writing a TIME cover story on the Pope, and, sighs the father, "his story beat me by two weeks." They were competitors again more recently on stories about the new Pope. But usually father concerns himself more, in his London TIME...
...that he had drunk six cans of beer and had had a few swallows from a pint bottle of whiskey. This, taken in conjunction with a statement made a bare two hours after Ware had been admitted to the hospital on the 5th to an investigator from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation saying he had had only three cans of beer was intended to weaken Ware's credibility...
...three-day span. This time Gordon told the local Associated Press man the story, and A.P. moved it to papers and radio stations all over the state. The eyes of Oklahoma were upon the skies as the first and second days passed without any rain, just as the Weather Bureau predicted. For the third day, the Weather Bureau forecast "a chance of light afternoon and evening thunder showers, with no more than one-quarter of an inch of rain...
When the downpour ended, the local Weather Bureau announced that nine inches of rain had fallen-an alltime 24-hour record for Tulsa...
...presumably only a coincidence that last week, a few days after the Tulsa deluge, President Kennedy announced a change of command at the Weather Bureau. Francis W. Reichelderfer, 68, a Franklin Roosevelt appointee who has headed the bureau for a quarter of a century, is about to retire. His successor: Robert M. White, president of the Travelers Research Center, which does research in meteorology and other fields for Connecticut's Travelers Insurance Co. White is the very model of a New Frontier weatherman: a Bostonian by origin, a Harvardman, and only 40. He has never been in Tulsa...