Word: bureaucrats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Head on the Table. Faure, the nimble master of political maneuver who had appointed Grandval. urged him to reconsider-but only halfheartedly. A worldly-wise French bureaucrat remarked that the Premier thought "it might not be a bad idea to have Grandval's head on the negotiation table." Shocked into action by the bloodletting, the Premier had summoned more than a hundred Moroccan notables to a conference at Aix-les-Bains and was now eagerly searching for an acceptable political solution...
...some instances, the employees got their jobs back; in others, dismissal was the end result. But in virtually none of the cases was anything accomplished by the loyalty boards, with their mass of rules and regulations and their fumbling procedures, that could not have been done by an individual bureaucrat with a modicum of common sense and the simple right to hire and fire in the interests of national security. And a great deal of time and money, not to mention human agony and governmental dignity, could have been saved...
...character and personality of this 60-year-old marshal. Only in recent months, in the searching and candid lens of foreign cameras, has the world had a good look at him. All his life he has served Communism and his country-as policeman and purger, businessman and bureaucrat, Defense Minister and Premier. Yet, until six months ago, he has made little more impact on the Western world than a splendidly caparisoned beefeater, opening and closing the door through which more ambitious men approached the Soviet throne room...
...taken more than one such accident to transform Karpovich from the Moscow soldier-bureaucrat to the Harvard professor. Remaining in Washington in 1917, he and his fellow orphaned diplomats waited five years for the Soviet regime to collapse and then finally closed up their embassy. In 1922 Karpovich moved to New York, where he lived for several years as a writer and translator. This literary existence in expatriate circles might have continued indefinitely, but in 1927 occurred the second great accident of Karpovich's life: Harvard College's only instructor in Russian History suddenly left Cambridge in the middle...
...marry Rubi, the darling boy, because he's so jealous." Then Mama grew more plausible: "Zsa Zsa will be a very big shot in Hollywood and in television. She would have to give that up to marry Rubi." Earlier in the week, Zsa Zsa (exwife of Turkish Bureaucrat Burhan Beige. Hotelman Conrad Hilton and Cinemactor George Sanders) confided to a New York Post gossipist: "None of my ex-husbands ever married again. After they've married me, they...