Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SITTING ROOM. This is Director Richard Lester's second surrealistic attack on the homicidal excesses of war; it makes his first aggressive stab against the military (How I Won the War) look like a warm-up exercise...
...state director of fisheries and game postponed the bear-hunting season for four days to let the bears sober up. He declined comment on a suggestion that only drunken hunters be allowed to hunt drunken bears...
...worked past midnight in his hideaway study in the Executive Office Building and in isolation at Camp David, there were no proposed drafts, no stacks of memos, no turgid position papers to help. "He's writing it himself-with his pen on his little yellow pad," confided Communications Director Herb Klein. Although he may not have wanted it that way, President Nixon's speech on Viet Nam this week had shaped up as one of the most important of his Administration to date...
...Senate passed a surprise amendment that Murphy tacked on to a poverty-program bill to give governors a veto over individual budget items in OEO Legal Services programs. Previously, a governor could veto the appropriation for an entire program in his state-but the OEO Director could override his veto.* "This is a disastrous piece of legislation," protested Alfred Feinberg, an OEO lawyer who heads an association called PLEA (Poverty Lawyers for Effective Advocacy). "If ultimately passed by the House, it will destroy OEO Legal Services...
...agency upset Governor Ronald Reagan when it won a suit to prevent him from cutting benefits for almost 1,500,000 people in the state's medical-assistance program. Reagan threatened to veto CRLA's aDoropriation but reportedly did not do so because OEO Director Sargent Shriver was prepared to override...