Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bureau of Drug Abuse Control, established last May, will focus its investigations on traffic in "pep pills" and barbiturates, and on manufacture of LSD in college laboratories...
...many months of squabbling about farm subsidies, have agreed on a common policy that offers 5% to 10% tariff reductions on about half their farm imports. Christian Herter, President Johnson's special representative for trade negotiations, has described the Common Market proposal as "very restrictive." The American Farm Bureau Federation wants the U.S. to pull out of the talks unless the Common Market makes a more generous offer. At stake is the $1.5 billion in annual sales of American farm products to the Common Market, which the U.S. fears the Europeans want to reduce...
When it was decided three weeks ago that the political phenomenon of Robert Kennedy was becoming important enough to be dealt with at cover length, Writer Ronald Kriss drafted a musing, searching, 1,000-word query to the Washington Bureau, which tells much about how TIME functions. He tentatively outlined the elements of the cover story as he and the editors saw them, asked the Washington bureau (and several others) to come ahead with their own appraisals and those of their sources. Kriss suggested five major areas to be explored: the Kennedy mystique, Kennedy as campaigner, Kennedy the strategist...
...native of Cincinnati, Schrotel came to the police department during the Depression, went through night law school while in charge of the Identification Bureau, won appointment as chief in 1951 after scoring a phenomenal 99.33% on the promotion exam. During his regime, Schrotel quarantined Cincinnati against the spread of organized crime, prevented gambling and prostitution in Kentucky border towns such as Newport from sweeping across the Ohio River...
...other hand, the men who rose to power over these bodies were all outsiders to the central party organization: Tao Chu, 60, fanatical head of the Central-South regional bureau, who assumed control of the propaganda apparatus; Chen Pota, 62, Mao's longtime ghostwriter, who now bosses the Red Guards; Lin Piao himself, who, though a Politburo member since 1950, has never been deeply involved in the party machinery...