Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world is to follow Conrad Hilton about. This is what Andy Kopkind of our Los Angeles bureau has been doing in recent weeks: interviewing his subject on planes, watching him delightedly go through the inevitable ceremonies-a "topping off" in Montreal, hotel openings in London and Rotterdam, groundbreakings in Brussels and Paris-and discovering the precarious world of the newly built. At the London Hilton, Kopkind suffered through a 15-minute elevator ride with Hilton, while the elevator stopped at 25 floors. Something had gone wrong with the mechanism, and once started in its cycle, the elevator had a mind...
...last "census of agriculture," taken in 1959 by the Census Bureau, 44% of those classified as farmers marketed less than $2,500 worth of farm goods a year. These families, whose poverty is often cited as a reason why federal farm subsidies must be continued, are not really farmers at all by any sensible criterion. Their net family income from agriculture averaged $217 a year. Their nonfarm income came to $2,884 per family. Counting them as farmers, and including their $217 a year in the national farm income averages, distorts and muddles federal farm policy. "These people," urges Professor...
Champagne in Streams. One major service Clemens performed for the Russians was to recruit a former SS colleague, Heinz Felfe. Cool and articulate, Defendant Felfe, 45, told the judges that he too was an ardent Nazi, had worked his way up into Heinrich Himmler's state security bureau. He bragged of his wartime successes, which he claimed included getting first reports on Teheran and Yalta from a confidant of Allen Dulles. After war's end he was classified by a German denazification board as unbelastet (not incriminated). This astonishing fact was acknowledged by Presiding Judge Kurt Weber with...
...those hours-long mob scenes in Manhattan's sweltering customs sheds, and if it is successful, inspectors will be stationed in other major European ports of embarkation. The whole project marks but an inch or two of progress, according to Customs Commissioner Philip Nichols Jr. In 1962 the bureau had only 2,298 inspectors to handle 158 million people at U.S. ports of entry. Congress refused to authorize any more, has also nixed proposals for 1) a corps of pretty hostesses to aid incoming passengers, 2) a Customs Academy, which would eventually turn out inspectors so expert in snap...
...when he used to go around eavesdropping on prospective jurors for his father. In 1914, he talked himself into a job working for the famed William J. Burns private detective agency. Gaston loved detecting. And when Burns was hired to head the Justice Department's investigative bureau, Means finagled a job as investigator. This was the Prohibition era and the days when the Harding Administration was brewing up the notorious Teapot Dome scandal. Means was all over the place: he hauled in huge profits selling liquor permits (ostensibly for medicinal and other restricted purposes), and became a topflight influence...