Word: bureaucratical
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...know him as a person. This is the gap which Budu Svanidze, 57, tries to fill from family stories and his own recollections. Nowadays, Author Svanidze lives in France. But for a long time, as an economist working on the official Soviet Encyclopedia and later as a treasury bureaucrat, he could, he says, run in to see Stalin whenever he felt like it. By way of self-explanation, Budu says that he jumped the reservation in 1945, while stationed in Vienna, in order to marry a Hungarian Roman Catholic girl...
Milk the Merchants. Taxes, in fact, had, as they increased, become increasingly hard to collect, as Felix, whose responsibility they were, had cause to know. Confiscations were the alternative, and as a good bureaucrat, Felix issued an order to confiscate. After all, if he did not, the army would, and then he would have nothing at all for roads and public works, instead of very little. Felix never actually built a road during his ten years in Britain, but he liked to think he meant to. With the confiscation, more & more of the farmers fled to the camps...
...Familiar Ground. Last week Bureaucrat Coe was summoned to an open hearing of a Senate Internal Security subcommittee. Since the Bentley testimony, his name had popped up in subversion inquiries; for example, in the hearings on the Institute of Pacific Relations, he had been linked repeatedly with proCommunists. Last year the State Department refused him a passport. Just before Election Day, Senator Joe McCarthy publicly denounced him, and Treasury Secretary John Snyder followed that up by requesting his dismissal from the I.M.F...
Staid Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, 61, is a new kind of President; he is neither a general nor a lawyer, but a bureaucrat. His nickname is Cara de Calavera, or Skullface; though he looks like Actor Boris Karloff, in his make-up there is a little Milquetoast: in movies, he obeys no-smoking rules even when everyone around him is puffing away. His favorite pastime is dominoes, though he also likes to watch baseball and stroll to street-corner stands to sip tamarind juice...
...Constitution. In the end, 18 of them took refuge in the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer. As they testified, they knew that the New York City board of education was listening. The board contends that under the city charter, any municipal employee-cop, teacher, fireman or bureaucrat-who refuses to answer on the ground of self-incrimination may be fired from...