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Stassen planned the tests as an "objective indication of ability" after Congress, in cutting FOA's appropriation, had given him blanket authority to disregard civil service regulations, seniority, or even veterans' preference in pruning his staff. Clerical staff members ($3,000 a year and below) took a basic test in vocabulary and reading comprehension; higher-placed FOAers faced a more difficult exam (45 questions, 75 minutes). Bureaucrats on a policy level had a public affairs test to contend with (70 questions, 2 hours), or, if they wished, a two-hour examination in "administrative judgment...
...death. There was the first mound of corpses by the roadside, caked with dried blood, open mouths frozen in a scream. His sergeant said: ''Don't get shook up. They're just Koreans." Or there were muddy U.S. Army boots protruding awkwardly from under a blanket as a litter jeep bounced down the road from the front. Or in the rain, as he climbed his first Korean hill, there was the glistening poncho stretched over the two men sleeping near the trail-and then he realized that they were asleep forever...
...nearby East London (pop. 76,000) arrived in a raucous parade of cars, buses and lorries. They elbowed their way into the kraal, streamed through Chief Sandile's house as though it were a wax museum. When the bride, covered from head to foot in a ritual green blanket, approached the Royal Kraal, the whites charged toward her, blocking the entrance. The bridegroom, waiting anxiously for a first look at the bride he had never seen, could see only the shouting throng of the uninvited...
...What we want," said one member of the Lions, "is a statue of a pioneer woman in a gingham dress and a sunbonnet . . not this trash." Said Oswald West, 80, a former governor of Oregon: "The pioneer mothers would rise up out of their graves and pin a horse blanket around the hussy." "The pioneers," snapped Frank Jenkins, editor of the Klamath Falls Herald & News, "liked 'em slimmer...
...Council conceded Congress the right to investigate, but protested the "abuse" of the investigate function, and the destruction of confidence in educational institutions "thorough unsubstantiated charges and blanket indictments." According to the statement, witnesses should be allowed to make "uninterrupted" initial statements of "reasonable length...