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Dorith Ortal, a high school inspector for the Ministry of Education in Tel Aviv, was impressed by the relaxed atmosphere in American schools, particularly in the open classrooms the group visited in Brookline. "To have 200 kids in an open space, each of them studying something different, would be impossible in Israel. Israelis are always sticking their nose into each other's business." She laughs. "Perhaps we need Lebensraum...
...earn money to attend Macalester College in St. Paul, Mondale worked as a pea-aphid inspector for the Green Giant company in the town of Blue Earth. It was at Macalester that Mondale first got involved with Hubert Humphrey and set his career on the course that was to carry him to the vice-presidential nomination...
...York State Democratic chairman, told people: "When you come out of the Garden at night, you will see some very strange people on the street. But don't worry. You'll be perfectly safe. Two out of three of them will be police undercover men." Assistant Chief Inspector Daniel Courtenay, a burly man who wears a gun in an ankle holster like Popeye Doyle, is in charge of a ten-square-block area around convention hall. He has 1,200 police who have taken a quickie course in crowd control and what they call "crisis intervention." He also...
Even after reaching New York, an immigrant who seeks working papers is apt to be severely interrogated by an official of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. "They keep trying to trick you into some mistake," says one Frenchwoman who recently underwent such questioning. "For example, the inspector asked me whether I'd ever been married before. I said I hadn't. Any children? I said no. Then he asked whether I had ever been a prostitute or a drug addict or a Communist or a fascist, and was I coming to America to overthrow the Government? Then...
...opening account of an alleged assault by a health inspector while touring Fred's Ice Cream up on Mass Ave is strong, almost in-credible stuff...