Word: branch
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...greatly expanded after the summer riots of 1967, the CONUS operation maintains files on millions of Americans who may have been involved, however remotely or passively, in domestic political activity, however lawful. The operation functions under no specific authority from the Executive much less the Legislative branch...
...game of baseball in a larger social context. According to the owner's canon, baseball is the place where racism, class inequality and other forms of discrimination do not exist. "You're all ball-players and you all put you're pants on one leg at a time." Branch Rickey told the Brooklyn Dodgers before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, and of course the ball-players responded with warmth and affection to their new "colored brother." Or so say the sportswriters and owners. Bouton, on the other hand, tells of Elston Howard, the beloved Yankee catcher, who was forced...
Originally, the Pentagon encouraged commanders in the field to alert black troops to the service. If he was interested, the black soldier independently wrote the League, which in turn, contacted a branch in the soldier's home town. But the military's help fell off when Congressional objections were raised. Now the League must depend largely on its own advertising in servicemen's newspapers and black publications to spread the news of the service...
...some Harvard Square banks. The Harvard Trust, which is next-door to the Coop, reported a nine per cent increase in new checking accounts in the third quarter of this year compared to a similar period in 1969. The percentage increase in September alone at the Harvard Square branch is probably even higher...
...Bond, Power, and Axe are charged by the FBI in a third hold-up, this one the September 1 robbery of $6040 from the City Line Branch of the Bell Savings and Loan Association in Philadelphia, Penn...