Word: bureaucratic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MARRIED. Christina Onassis, 27, Greek Shipping Heiress; and Sergei Kauzov, 37, former Soviet Shipping Bureaucrat; in Moscow (see WORLD...
...order to spare Joe the pain. Of course, the escort does not realize that Joe, being an excellent athlete with quick reflexes, would have avoided the crash and lived for another 50 years. Joe protests his early departure to heaven and the mistake is soon discovered by another celestial bureaucrat (played by they oh-so-suave James Mason). Unfortunately, Joe's own body has been cremated, so a new body suitable for him must be found...
After commissioning and polishing Elaine May's screenplay, Beatty got to work on casting. Possibly the hardest role to fill was that of Mr. Jordan, a heavenly bureaucrat played by Claude Rains in 1941: both Cary Grant and former Senator Eugene McCarthy were talked about for the part before it went to James Mason. Only at the last minute did Beatty decide to try directing for the first time. "I asked Mike [Nichols] and Arthur [Penn], but they were busy," he says. "Then I thought the next best thing would be to do it myself." But Beatty, who becomes deadly...
...their concentration on means. Says Carl Coleman, a public affairs officer in HEW'S regional office in Denver: "HEW gets the social engineers, the people they call do-gooders. They're committed, and they make a lot of mistakes because of their ardor." His favorite example: the West Coast bureaucrat who tried to ban father-son school banquets on the ground that they discriminated against women...
...country where HEW'S services are delivered, people often complain that its programs are not tailored closely enough to local needs. This has become more of a problem since Califano took away the power of the ten regional directors and re-centralized it in Washington. Too few bureaucrats, HEW'S critics claim, are rewarded for initiative. Says Robert Mollica, who deals with federal-state relations for the Governor's office in Massachusetts: "Occasionally we will find a bureaucrat who is courageous enough to interpret the spirit behind the programs rather than carrying them out to the letter whether...