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...reply to the comment [casting aspersion on the Philadelphia water supply]: I'm no bureaucrat; The Best Man is an excellent play; Playwright Gore Vidal still should delete the line slurring our drinking water. ABE S. ROSEN Deputy City Representative Philadelphia...
...Bureaucrat's Dream. The program that Kennedy unveiled at the plowing contest was more original than Nixon's, but also more gimmicky. Kennedy offered the farmers something new, "parity of income" (not to be confused with price "parity," basis of much farm legislation now on the books, and a hot one that both candidates avoided). The concept was "clear," Kennedy insisted, but the way he defined it, parity of income sounded like a mathematician's nightmare and a bureaucrat's dream. "Parity of income," he said, "is that income which gives average producers a return...
...answer to a Philadelphia bureaucrat's demand for deletion of a line in The Best Man slurring the city's drinking water, Playwright Gore Vidal said, "I'm a fervent foe of water pollution whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water," left the script intact. Just as bold on his own Hudson, where he is currently running for Congress in a Republican-dominated, midstate New York district. Democrat Vidal recently boasted, "I say 80% of what I think-a hell of a lot more than any politician I know." Not that...
Last week, even more dismayed by public outcry than by private eccentricity, harried Bureaucrat Morris hurriedly put the case of Singh Sagar back on the agenda for next month's Transport Committee meeting. "Perhaps," said stubborn, turbaned Singh Sagar. "I will be the first Sikh to ring a Manchester Corporation bus bell...
Toward midnight, a senior Japanese bureaucrat cautiously ventured out into Tokyo's sheltering darkness carrying a chrysanthemum-embossed copy of the revised U.S.-Japanese Security Treaty. He inspected the streets for signs of left-wing demonstrators with all the wariness of an oldtime plainsman watching for hostile Sioux, then headed for the Imperial Palace. There he was admitted inconspicuously, waited as Emperor Hirohito brushed on his signature...