Word: borenized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...David Hall, 44. The Governor, who won only 27% of the votes, will not even get a chance to compete in the mid-September runoff. That opportunity now goes to first-term Congressman Clem McSpadden, 48, a pop ular singing cowboy and rodeo announcer, and Baptist University Professor David Boren, 33, a Rhodes scholar whose unexpected political ascent is being compared to a prairie fire...
...dreamer of this unlikely dream is James H. Boren, president of the tongue-in-cheek National Association of Professional Bureaucrats. This week the Government might well take his advice. For never have Americans seemed more reluctant to pay their taxes-or to pay enough. After scrutinizing returns last week, Treasury Secretary John Connally, exploded in outrage over the ways in which taxpayers were cheating the Government out of money rightfully owed. He promised "maybe millions" of audits, and ordered some 15,000 IRS employees to help people figure out the tax forms, which are so complicated that one study estimates...
...latest campaign is aimed at the State Department, which has decided that all outgoing telegrams be prepared on special "optical character recognition" typewriters. At the moment, only three such typewriters exist at State, and only a few operators have mastered the system's intricacies. That provides Boren with a target that seems almost too good to be true. NATAPROBU's chief executive officer, president and chairman of the board knows bureaucracy well: he struggled for seven years as a middle-level official in the Agency for International Development (AID) a renowned citadel of red tape, and served previously...
Some orchestration. Its offices in the National Press Building are a model of inefficiency. Phone wires, some disconnected, make Boren's desk look like a spaghetti bowl. Papers, stamps and stamp pads are everywhere. One example: "Cleared/Deputy Associate Assistant Chairman/Committee on Clearances/NATAPROBU." There are copies of Inaction Line, the organization's own very occasional publication; a clutch of bureaucrat pencilsfeaturing erasers at both endsand even copies of a society song called Let's Fingertap Together. Boren estimates that the organization has about 300 members, but admits the roster has not grown much...
...fitting bureaucratic style, the coronation of "Miss Bureaucrat 1969" last week was followed, a few moments later, by the crowning of "Miss Carbon Copy," her twin sister. Both presided over the presentation of awards for extraordinary bureaucratic finesse. Winners received a gold-painted, potbellied, disheveled bird, sculpted by Boren himself. Among the recipients were ex-Ambassador to Panama and former Peace Corps Director Jack Hood Vaughn and John Brayton Redecker, a State Department official and author of CASP: A Systematic Approach to Policy Planning and Analysis in Foreign Affairs. Absent was Vice President Spiro Agnew, tapped for "his contributions...