Word: offshoots
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...meeting seemed to reduce slightly the tension crackling between Israel and its principal ally. The same could hardly be said of the Arab world last week. Palestinians and their supporters greeted the news of Tell's murder by gunmen believed to be members of an offshoot of Al-Fatah, the principal guerrilla group, with jubilation. They blamed the Jordanian Premier, King Hussein's principal adviser, for the crackdown in the past year that emasculated the fedayeen as a political power. "Have you heard the good news?" an Arab called to TIME Jerusalem Correspondent Marsh Clark...
...increased sense of community and pride among students is an offshoot of the New Radcliffe. Physical changes have taken place in the past two years-besides the addition of men, Currier House, resident tutors, workshops, House seminars, even grills-which have accompanied, and to some extent, prodded subtler changes in the thinking of many Radcliffe undergraduates...
...immense objet trouvé. Thus his radical invention of environmental art. Schwitters' Merzbau (or Merz-house) in Hannover was the first great work of its kind, integrating assemblage, painting and architecture. Its convolutions reached through two floors and four rooms of Schwitters' home, with a separate offshoot in the attic. It was as if he had deposited the cells and memories of his own brain, wrought out in a coral of bizarre objects, cabinets and boxes, on the walls of a maze...
...offshoot of the New Uni-versity Conference, a national group of radical university professors and graduate students with offices in Chicago. The Harvard group has been meeting informally for several months now. "We have as yet no formal structure," Ackerman said...
Demos announced that KNOW, an offshoot of the Radcliffe alumnae organization NOW (New Opportunities for Women), had proposed to the Harvard administration that an expert steering committee with an adequate budget be set up to consider the problem of day care...