Word: bureaucratism
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...budding bureaucrat has been missing since Feb. 8 from his Berkeley job. Missing with him, at last count, is more than $600,000 from ABAG's coffers. Investigators charged that, while ostensibly grappling with such area-wide concerns as water conservation, smog control and sewage disposal in his $218-a-week post as ABAG's No. 2 man, Truax, 26, was also trying to beat the system in Las Vegas' casinos. He lost "at least $200,000" at one casino, says California Assistant Attorney General Marshall S. Mayer, and perhaps more than that at several others, where...
Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin is a mild-appearing man who, along with present Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, helped overthrow Khrushchev in 1964 because, among other reasons, he was acutely embarrassed by Nicky's high jinks and rocket rattling. An efficient bureaucrat, Kosygin not only involves himself deeply in the Soviet Union's domestic affairs but also directs his country's foreign policy. This week, in an interview in LIFE, he proved that he can be just as tough and unbending as any of his predecessors. Ranging over a wide variety of subjects in a more or less...
Visits to Aunt Magda. In Bulgaria, 19% of all cars on the road are chauffeur-driven, and Poland has 27,000 chauffeurs for its officials. All of the thousand or so cars with curtained windows that bump along Albania's dusty roads are government-owned, usually contain bureaucrats and their drivers. Even the tiny Czechoslovakian veterinary service has somehow managed to acquire 900 chauffeured cars. As a sop to socialist equality, the bureaucrat often rides in the front seat beside his driver, who is nonetheless expected to hop out and open the door for him. Throughout the East bloc...
...indelible gesture that scandalizes her mother, who promptly trots daughter all over town, showing the handiwork to anyone who will look. Eventually, the crestfallen dispatcher is brought before a rubber-stamp congress of officialdom to account for his shocking behavior. Brandishing photographic evidence of the misdeed, a Nazi bureaucrat asks: "Miss Svata, is this your behind?", and prates about the "defamation of the German state language...
...head of the Vocational Rehabilitation Administration, which aids the handicapped. "She's a dynamo," says Gardner. Breezy and humane, she is also a tough in-fighter known in the cautious corridors of government for her outspoken skill in dealing with timid planners. "She's the most sophisticated bureaucrat in the business," says Connecticut Senator and former HEW Secretary Abe Ribicoff, "a do-gooder who really knows...