Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dealers, with a dropoff of only 5%-not bad considering the fact that it has doubled its newsstand price to 10?. As for the Herald Tribune, which also hiked its price by a nickel, circulation is off-but just how much will not be known until the Audit Bureau of Circulation releases its next official, semiannual report sometime after Sept. 30. "It has held up better than we anticipated," says Trib President Walter Thayer cautiously...
...repeatedly said that the market price of wheat would fall to $1 a bushel, but his figure is a mere guess. At any rate, he says the issue before the farmers is plain and simple: $2 wheat or $1 wheat. "Two-Bit Politics." The Chicago-headquartered American Farm Bureau Federation, biggest of U.S. farmer organizations, insists that the real issue is "freedom to farm." If the Freeman plan wins, says the Farm Bureau's President Charles Shuman, the Federal Government will proceed to extend strict controls over all segments of U.S. agriculture. If the wheat farmers reject the plan...
...greeting people whose faces they recognized. A nearby polo field was transformed into a vast parking lot complete with a fire engine, two tow trucks, a chow tent for chauffeurs, overhead electric lighting, and a walkie-talkie system to call cars. Close touch was maintained with the U.S. Weather Bureau (it sprinkled on Sunday), and a doctor and registered nurse were on hand in case any of the 1,000 or so guests suddenly took ill. "If I had had staff work like this in Italy," said General Mark Clark, "I could have cleaned up that theater of action...
...Walker persuaded Day to try a live artist this year, got Art News magazine to give $500 to each of the contestants chosen to enter. The five artists-Buck-minster Fuller. Herbert Bayer. Josef Albers. Bradbury Thompson and Frasconi -were brought to the capital for a tour of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to learn the limitations of the department's presses. They submitted a total of 14 entries, all designs intended to put the abstract theme of science in accurate and artistic context. To Winner Frasconi, chosen by a three-man committee after four hours of deliberation...
...turning into a working-class flat in Paddington. Sure enough, he does. His new name is 29 Scum Terrace, W.2. A doctor examines him from the inside. Putting a stethoscope on a table, he says, "Cough." No. 29 Scum Terrace coughs, and a knob falls off a bureau drawer...