Word: crozier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...directed by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, an unwieldy bureaucracy that perpetuates the status quo. Because scientists who belong to the C.N.R.S. have civil service status, they cannot be fired once they have received tenure. Promotions are based on seniority rather than on competition. Says Michel Crozier, a research director at C.N.R.S.: "Once you have a system where procedures as well as promotions come from conforming to the social situation, it means that it is absolutely impossible to get people to cooperate in a bold venture...
Unlike their metropolitan cousins, though, few of these mayors are career politicians. Ted Crozier, a bald, burly ex-Army colonel, retired to his wife's home town of Clarksville, Tenn., and found public affairs more interesting than the restaurant into which he had sunk some of his service savings. Gesturing with his cigarette holder, he says: "I'm trying to prove you can turn things around." Charlotte Baldwin, the slim, red-haired wife of a dentist from Madisonville...
...period of stagnant federal and state aid. One proposed device: juggle whatever cash is on hand adroitly enough to earn maximum interest on it. The mayors respond like pre-med students before final exams, asking the same basic questions and getting writer's cramp taking notes. When Crozier misplaces his pad he scribbles away on a series of napkins which he then stuffs in his pocket...
Hardly. Each mayor figures that he really is making a difference. Ted Crozier has shaken up the police department; he has even got his 92-man police force to jog it self into shape. Richard Verbic of Elgin, Ill., a dentist, boasts of completing an other kind of bridge - a $1.2 million span over the Fox River, which the town needed for 20 years. Richard Baker is proud of having brought the Little League World Series to Newark for the third year running; no other town in the country can match that claim. Don Quaintance thinks he might like...
...first dramatic step was to sell the bishop's 17-room brick residence, which Topel did for $25,000. (As the legal "corporation sole" of the diocese, the bishop can dispose of diocesan assets as he sees fit.) He also sold his gem-studded crozier and pectoral cross. All profits were turned over to charity through a special ecumenical committee...