Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perilous, seemingly impossible ' assignment of exploring the secret world of the Arab commandos for this week's cover story fell principally to Beirut Bureau Chief Edward Hughes. Meanwhile Jerusalem Stringer Marlin Levin and Rome Correspondent John Shaw pursued essential details on the Israeli side...
...first satellite launching I ever covered," says TIME'S Houston Bureau Chief Don Neff, "seemed to me the most thrilling thing I had ever seen." That was in 1959, and Neff has been searching for more expansive superlatives ever since. He has watched other space shots, and as each one traveled farther or stayed in orbit longer, Neff was more and more impressed by the skill and dedication of the engineers and scientists whose work he reported. He was on hand at California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory when word was passed that Mariner 4 had made a successful...
Call to Arms. Absence of such a statute has given rise to a sense of helplessness among officials of the federal Bureau of Mines, the agency directly responsible for mining safety at the federal level. Under present law, the BOM inspectors are supposed to make periodic, unannounced checks of the mines to ensure that safety procedures are being followed. But they lack authority to impose any punitive measures on mine operators who continually violate the law. And despite BOM denial, many miners claim that the mine operators are informed of inspections ahead of time...
...obviously playing for time in his new choice of loyalties. Whether or not those loyalties now belong fully to the Russians, he fared very well at the Central Committee meeting. He not only won a seat on the new "supercommittee," but also became head of the new Czech party bureau, created as a separate party wing for the nation's Czech majority -a job that gives him a readymade political base. All in all, he now ranks as a possible successor...
...what set off the first blast, but once the fire was under way, it spread rapidly, feeding on combustible coal dust and deadly methane. Though the mine had been checked regularly with gas-measuring safety devices, miners called No. 9 "hot" before the explosion. William Park, a U.S. Bureau of Mines official, confirmed that it was "extremely gassy...