Word: bureau
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Expo 67, however, looks every bit as good as its superenthusiastic promoters promised (see following color pages). For one thing, the International Bureau of Exhibitions, which has been refereeing these things since 1928, classified it as an official "First Category Exposition" (the first ever in the Americas), as opposed to a run-of-the-mill world's fair, which emphasizes business exhibits and often-irksome commercialism. Beyond that, Expo 67 was dreamed up expressly to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Canada's national birth, and thus is powered by the energies and imagination of a proud and thriving...
Every weary truck driver knows the highway stops where he can pay $15 for a bag of stimulating amphetamine tablets-he calls them "bennies" or "copilots." Equally knowledgeable is Harold Leap, agent of the year-old U.S. Bureau of Drug Abuse Control and head of its St. Louis office. Disguised as truck drivers, Leap's D-men have bought illegal bennies time and again, but not just to nab roadside peddlers. They aim to buy supplies of bennies wholesale, and thus trace the black-market drugs back to their source...
...biggest consumers of illegal bennies are students cramming for exams, which partly explains why the BDAC has recently enlisted coeds and young agents to infiltrate college groups. BDAC has nothing to do with such notorious narcotics as heroin and morphine, which are policed by the Treasury Department's Bureau of Narcotics. Though BDAC has been given responsibility for surveillance of LSD, its main concern is with the amphetamines, barbiturates and the milder tranquilizers, which are legal on prescription and medically valuable-but are nonetheless dangerous when bandied about on campuses and highways...
Though Mayor Yorty has installed a Spanish-speaking complaint bureau in city hall, Los Angeles' government is still overwhelmingly Anglo in makeup. Last week, Bravo and one of his Angeleno protégés, Valley State College Historian Julian Nava, 39, were making the first major effort to alter that situation. Running with Bravo's backing for the nonpartisan school board, Nava-the son of an indigent harp maker and winner of a Bravo scholarship loan to finish Harvard-was coursing the city in his green Volkswagen in a catalytic campaign against Incumbent Charles Reed Smoot...
...matter whom they may more or less resemble in life, author Daley's caricature creatures seem more like conventioneering Rotarians or stodgy minor bureaucrats than journalistic giants. Bureau chiefs loll about sidewalk cafés or tool around in chauffeurdriven limousines, rewriting local newspapers, and big-name correspondents interview one another over grog. The biggest fraud is Pettibon, "The Paper's" man in Paris. Despite the Pulitzer Prize he won, the books he wrote, the generals and Prime Ministers he met and conquered, Pettibon is a cheesecloth hero. He pretends fluent French and frets over whether his latest...