Word: bureaus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visas, as was Tillman Durdin, 64, of the New York Times, another old China hand who covered the Sino-Japanese War from Shanghai in the late 1930s and was the Times's Nanking bureau chief in 1948. Rich, Roderick and Durdin all applied for permission to open permanent bureaus in Peking...
...Richard Nixon's first organizational reforms when he took office was to place all White House staffers on the White House payroll rather than permit the traditional practice of hiding them away on the lists of other bureaus and departments. Thus the acknowledged size of his staff grew from 250 permanent positions in fiscal 1970 to 533 in 1971, with the budget increased from $3,900,000 to the present allocation...
Last week Ervin's subcommittee began hearings on his biggest concern to date: how to safeguard the political liberties of U.S. citizens from what one witness called "dossier dictatorship"-the vast files that are now being computerized by assorted snoopers, ranging from credit bureaus to Army agents, who allegedly concentrate their spying on war protesters. Dramatizing his worries about computers, Ervin displayed two props: a 1,245-page Bible and a two-inch-square piece of microfilm, each containing 773,746 words. "Someone remarked that this meant the Constitution could be reduced to the size of a pin-head...
Sander's committee has been studying proposals that would give academic credit for clinical legal work, the term given to actual involvement of law students in such areas as Legal Service Bureaus and welfare offices...
...Washington Post, was responsible for the piece on six new Congressmen. Other articles were contributed by Ed Magnuson, who spent ten years on the Minneapolis Tribune before joining TIME; Keith Johnson, another political veteran of the Herald Tribune, as well as TIME'S Los Angeles and Washington bureaus; and William Barnes, who broke into journalism covering politics for the White Plains Reporter Dispatch. The section has been greatly assisted throughout the campaign by the expertise of Hays Gorey, a 5½-year veteran of our Washington bureau, who came up for a writing stint in New York. Among...