Word: bureau
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...Glassboro, N.J., when he heard the news of the impending Johnson-Kosygin meeting. Arriving from New York in the middle of the night, he managed to acquire a sparsely furnished room in the town's only hotel, tacked a penciled sign on the door reading "TIME Magazine, Glassboro Bureau," and was in business. Among the other TIME staffers who joined him were the Washington Bureau's Bruce Nelan and White House Correspondent Hugh Sidey, who had watched the guessing, the maneuvering and finally the hasty preparation that preceded the meeting, sticking close to Lyndon Johnson throughout...
...determine what had gone wrong. Nearly everything had. One day after a legislative committee issued a scathing report on conditions in the penitentiary, the warden shot himself. The state director of corrections left soon after, to be succeeded by Fred Wilkinson, 59, former deputy director of the federal Bureau of Prisons and the first professional penologist ever to run the sprawling (seven institutions, 3,476 inmates) Missouri system...
...Smith, "and out there the water's too clear and the fish avoid the net." Aggravating the situation is the fact that fishermen, unable to net menhaden at sea, have moved into the spawning fields of Chesapeake Bay. According to Biologist Kenneth Henry of North Carolina's Bureau of Fisheries, 94% of the fish caught north of Cape Hatteras in 1966 had not spawned...
...elephants. But the first-of-its-kind conference ended with only an innocuous agreement to coordinate research and information policies. For that, the four countries set up an Intergovernmental Council of Copper Exporting Countries, to be based in Paris. Its first move will be to open an information bureau. "Consumers must not worry," said mustachioed Chilean Minister of Mines Alejandro Hales, the conference's dominant delegate. "We are not going for their throats. This will not be a cabal...
Buddha's new look is that of a politician. This book, which grew out of a TIME cover story (Dec. 11, 1964), is by Tokyo Bureau Chief Jerrold Schecter, 34, who did much of the research for the story. It is the first comprehensive, country-by-country attempt to unravel the passions and contradictions of Buddhism in the political arena...