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...verses, Mrs. Louchheim shows the influence of her favorite portrait poets, Edwin Arlington Robinson and Edgar Lee Masters, but displays a sharp, sometimes biting, always knowing wit that is all her own. Her subjects, readers will find, are anonymous, but nowhere is she more on target than in "The Bureaucrat...
...more. Washington, no less than other world capitals, is a city of prose-in triplicate, quadruplicate, or burnt brown Thermo-Fax. In such surroundings, Katie Louchheim stands out as clearly as a lyric line, for she is one of the last survivors of a lost race: the poet-bureaucrat or bureaucrat-poet. Which comes first is hard to say, for last week, just a few days after she was promoted to Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs-highest rank ever attained by a woman in the State Department's Washington hierarchy-a New York publisher...
Wine & Winqs. George deserts Nellie and the workers' cause by taking a job in Europe as some sort of bureaucrat and acquiring a taste in wine and tailor-made clothes. Nellie declines in her London lodgings, where she takes to crooning about her soul ("Oh me great black and rosy wings!"), and where from time to time, naked women dance in the rear of the premises. George, serves him right, is killed in a skiing accident. Nellie is last seen entering a mysterious house that shelters some cult in search of the "Unknowable...
Perhaps more to the point, the Bonn government is also disturbed-and though Lufthansa is independently operated, the government owns 75% of its shares. Last week one government bureaucrat accused Lufthansa of "stressing negative aspects of the German character." Said another: "They present the German as an automaton, a creature without a soul. We can't be happy about that...
...logistics boss during the frenzied buildup of U.S. forces, he controlled the operation of hospitals and ports throughout the land, operated the PXs, handled the feeding and housing of incoming troops-and spent more than $100 million in U.S. Government funds. But he was no ordinary military bureaucrat. A hearty and high-living bachelor, Kuntze (Annapolis '42) was a wheeler-dealer with a hand in so many U.S. activities that he proudly called himself "the American mayor of Saigon...