Word: branch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Western preserve, Stanford now ranks third behind Harvard and M.I.T. and just ahead of Caltech as the first-choice college of National Merit scholars. The graduate business school's students are 25% Ivy Leaguers. The university is getting so international-minded that it now has 503 students at branch campuses in Florence, Stuttgart, Tours, Tokyo and Taipei...
...McCollum, who is president of the American Humanist Association, spoke at a meeting sponsored by the Harvard branch of that organization she is the well-known plaintiff in a 1943 Supreme Court case (McCollum vs. Board of Education) in which the Court ruled that classes in religion could not be taught on public school grounds. The decision is important to the first application of a 1947 Court opinion that the First Amendment's guarantee that "Congress shall pass no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" was made applicable to state legislation by the Fourteenth...
...first put it there. We get back only 13? on every dollar we send in. There are an enormous number of things being done by the Federal Government that can be put back in our own area. Centralization of more and more power in the hands of the executive branch of government deprives us of our individual rights and freedoms." It was a serious speech-seriously considered and seriously delivered. But the ladies could hardly have cared less; all they wanted was to ogle the candidate...
...family named Bunge (pronounced bungee) began trading in wheat along the Baltic coast. In 1876, when the first immense shipments of grain began to flow to Europe from the Pampas, young Ernest Bunge and his brother-in-law, George Born, emigrated from Antwerp to Buenos Aires and started a branch that soon overshadowed its European trunk. The company expanded even more rapidly under Ernest Bunge's successor, German-born Alfred ("Don Alfredo") Hirsch, who used the grain trade profits to diversify into milling and manufacturing. Since Hirsch's death in 1956, the domain has been...
...Marcel Marceau. Marceau knows the art of saying more with less: Newley says less with more. Though Littlechap periodically shouts "Stop the World!", he is not an Angry Young Everyman. He marries the boss's daughter (she is pregnant by Littlechap at the time), advances from a branch office to head of the firm, enters Parliament, is dubbed a peer, and even gets into the club of his choice. "Snobs...