Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seated in a Baroque armchair in his elegant office in Palais Schaumburg, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt last week described his vision of a "new Germany" in an interview with Benjamin Gate, TIME's Bureau Chief in Bonn. The Chancellor spoke in fluent hut slightly stiff English, smoking cigarettes and rolling wooden matches between his fingers while he pondered his answers...
...heard of "a subversive Communist front organization, the S.D.S., or how a bunch of radicals-I knew most of the radicals -were going to burn their draft cards, I would call the FBI." He tried, he says, to keep his news and FBI work separate, but as his Bureau activities became more demanding, he found "I couldn't do this one hundred percent of the time." When, for example, David Dellinger (now a defendant in Chicago) spoke at a rally at San Diego State College shortly before the Republican convention, Oilman "went down there not as a newsman...
...present time there is one program planner in the City's Bureau of the Budget exploring the possibility of an "economic and social report of the Mayor" that would be comparable to the President's annual economic report. The difficulty of such a task is immensely complicated by the lack of a sophisticated understanding of the urban economy and social structure. In New York City, this lack of sophistication reflects a lack of data rather than brainpower...
...City is limited to taxes which are on the whole regressive: the poor pay proportionately more. According to unpublished research done at the National Bureau of Economic Research for fiscal year 1968-69, a family in New York City with a before-tax income under $2,000 paid 11.5 per cent in total City taxes. As family income rose, this steadily decreased to 5.7 per cent for a family with income between $10,000 and $15,000 Families making over $15,000 paid an average of 74 per cent, a slight increase but still less than for families with below...
...idea was suggested by Jesse Birnbaum, our San Francisco bureau chief since last January after 18 years as a writer and senior editor in New York. Traveling west with an Easterner's (Passaic, N.J.) eye. Birnbaum was immediately struck by "how much of the California legend was true-the climate, the geography, the hordes of new Californians shucking off old ways and values and experimenting with the new"-sometimes compulsively, sometimes casually. "The more I got to know San Francisco, the more intrigued I became with its life style, its easy atmosphere, the narcissism of the city...