Word: bureaucrats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still they come. In August alone, 259 Cubans made it across to the U.S. Two weeks ago the U.S. Coast Guard came upon two boats jammed with 67 refugees, including the chauffeur of Fidel's brother Ramon (an obscure bureaucrat in the Department of Sugar Transport) and Orlando Contreras, once one of Cuba's most popular singers, now declared "decadent." Said Contreras: "They wouldn't let me sing what I wanted to, and they wouldn't let me make a tour inside the country, and finally they put a 70% tax on my wages to make...
What Shuman can claim overwhelming credit for is the defeat of the 1963 nationwide wheat referendum, which shook the Kennedy Administration to its socks. It was the Gettysburg of the war between farmer and bureaucrat-and Shuman was its General Meade. The referendum's Robert E. Lee was Willard Cochrane, then Freeman's director of agricultural economics, a tough-minded theoretician whose ideas proved politically unacceptable...
...muscle tonic to the natives, packs precious stones in his stethoscope, and conducts his exodus with the unholier-than-thou sneer of a rascal who interprets Mosaic law as the survival of the fittest. Mitchum looks most comfortable when he climbs aboard an elephant called Emily and terrorizes the bureaucrat in charge of the sluice gates of an artificial lake, whereupon the waters part...
Against Time. Madrazo has firsthand knowledge of his party's lethargy and corruption. In 1952, when the government was racked by a scandal over P.R.I. officials who demanded payoffs from Mexican braceros in return for work permits, Bureaucrat Madrazo-as P.R.I. leaders privately admit today -was framed and packed off to jail for eight months. Next week Madrazo will open a national convention at which delegates representing the P.R.I.'s 6,300,000-man membership will be invited to draw up a long-term program of social and political reform. "Politics," warns Madrazo, "is a game against time...
...comes to such well-publicized FBI transgressions as occasional, indiscriminate wire tapping, Kraft writes that off, too. In Kraft's view, Hoover is too often held accountable for directives that have come from above, from the President or the Attorney General. Kraft is satisfied that "the compleat bureaucrat" is the man who does effectively what he is told...