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...Research & Development Co. (initial capitalization: $4,300) in a plan to defraud the commission of turnpike construction funds. With then-Turnpike Commission Chairman Thomas J. Evans' nephew, Charles Stickler, as president, Manu-Mine had cozily acted as the commission's consultant, contractor (without competitive bidding) and official inspector of its own work, received an "exorbitant" $7,000,000 (of the total $19.5 million in contracts) for drilling useless holes to fill abandoned coal mines with sand and gravel along the turnpike's right of way. Prosperous little Manu-Mine's big profit: over...
...rhymes with peck), who at 56 has five other operas behind him (including The Magic Violin, Columbus, Irish Legend), was casting about last year for the makings of a comic opera ("I didn't want to see them leave unhappy") when he reread Gogol's The Inspector General. Egk decided it was just the kind of thing he needed. He hacked down Gogol's sprawling list of characters to a manageable 13, set to work composing a score to match the author's farcical tale of a provincial town paralyzed by the news that a civil...
...Leaf. In Madison, Wis., the State Bureau of Personnel offers a $325-a-month summer job: "Shade Tree Inspector...
ETHIOPIA. Replacing the recently resigned Rev. Dr. Joseph Simonson, 52, Lutheran minister and publicist (and reportedly one of the U.S. diplomats who fell into Dick Nixon's "cornball" category during the Vice President's recent African trip): Don Carroll Bliss, 59, now foreign service inspector in the State Department and a hardworking, unobtrusive career officer who has done duty in Ottawa, London, Calcutta. Paris, Athens, Bangkok, Singapore and Djakarta during his 34 years with the foreign service...
...program, this year put 14 youngsters through a rigid set of tests and interviews to pick those qualified to go abroad. Last week three more Turkish prodigies were in Paris waiting 'o begin their formal studies. The three: ¶ Verda Erman, 12, daughter of a Wagons-Lits Cook inspector in Istanbul. Verda began playing the piano at six, showed so much promise that her parents and music teacher decided to enter her in the ministry's contest. When she won, her father took a leave of absence, now lives comfortably, at his government's expense, with...