Word: offshoot
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...lemon on an orange tree, it's still not an orange." Yet the Democratic Party has never discouraged expedient hybridization-provided, at least, that oranges and lemons continue to hang from the same tree and wear the grower's label. If, on the contrary, the odd offshoot insists on permanent identification as a new species, it invites pruning. "Break Through!" Thus, in recent months, a host of top Republicans, from House Leader Ford to Senate Leader Everett Dirksen and Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton, have taken pains to dissociate the G.O.P. from the extremist John Birch Society...
...Premature." Some bullfight. The frente has split into several factions. One Conservative band consistently criticizes Valencia's policies, and a left-wing offshoot of the Liberal Party has even thrown its support to ex-Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, whose National Popular Alliance Party went from six to 28 seats after the March congressional elections. "We shall take the government by fair means or foul," vows Rojas, whose followers have taken to wearing a Nazi-like party uniform...
...here that Carlson chose to make his life. Born in Culver City, Calif., the son of a Swedish-immigrant machinist, he had been raised in an atmosphere of religion: the Evangelical Covenant Church of America, an offshoot of Lutheranism. Two years of service as a seaman in the U.S. Navy (1946-48) provided him with the G.I. bill and eventually his medical degree. At North Park College in Chicago he dated blonde, pert Lois Lindblom, whom he married in 1950. Then came Stanford and a degree in anthropology, followed by George Washington University med school. Lois worked as a nurse...
...only airline to be run by an honest-to-Allah sheik. The man responsible for the line's rapid and unsubsidized climb is Najib Salim Alamuddin, 55, who inherited the title of sheik from a family long prominent in Lebanon's Druze sect, an Islamic offshoot founded in the llth century. Educated at the American University of Beirut, suave, sophisticated Sheik Alamuddin was running his own telecommunications company when he was asked to take over Middle East Airlines...
Battle Training. Combatting such reluctance is a top-priority job for the Chicago-based National Defender Project, the first significant effort to set up a system of fulltime public defenders throughout the U.S. An offshoot of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association, the project was started last year with $2,300,000 from the Ford Foundation. Last month Ford gave it another $2,000,000, which amounted to an openhanded vote of confidence in the project's staff and distinguished new director, the U.S. Army's recently retired Judge Advocate General Charles L. Decker (West Point...