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...SACRED CONSISTORIAL CONGREGATION. As the church's Department of the Interior, the Consistorial Congregation supervises and changes the boundary lines between dioceses, advises the Pope on naming new bishops (except in missionary and Eastern Rite lands). Headed by Carlo Cardinal Confalonieri, a smooth, elegant bureaucrat with 35 years' experience in the Vatican, the congregation also receives the stewardship reports that each bishop must present to the Pope every five years...
...boss for the New Frontiersmen in speeding the program. Last week the President fired Goodwin's nominal boss. Robert Woodward, a genial career diplomat who was just too slow for Kennedy. In his place as Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, the President named a career bureaucrat. Edwin M. Martin, 53. who has a grounding in economics...
...farewell lecture as Cambridge University's Reader of English, the grand panjandrum of British criticism, stiletto-tongued Frank Raymond Leavis, 66, set off the biggest explosion to rock Britain's literary Establishment in a decade. Leavis' target: Author-Bureaucrat Sir Charles Percy Snow, 56, whose, eight-volume novel cycle, Strangers and Brothers, has won him transatlantic renown as a perceptive interpreter of the new scientific culture of the 20th century. Dismissing their author as "portentously ignorant," irascible Humanist Leavis suggested that Snow's books "are composed for him by an electronic brain called Charlie, into which...
...Britain's are dryly summed up by two incidents. Before the ladies come, Fielding cannot find his back collar stud, and the puppyish Aziz plucks out his own and forces the principal to take it. Later Miss Quested's fiancé, by his own admission a "sundried bureaucrat," uses Aziz to illustrate the hopeless flaw in the Indian character: the man is neatly dressed, he points out, except for a comical inattention to detail-he has forgotten his back collar stud...
...time, Emile enjoys a mindlessly sensual affair with a married woman (Janet Ward). But the lure of the egg is too strong. He marries a bureaucrat's daughter and becomes a civil servant. When his wife is unfaithful, Emile turns venal and takes money from her lover "for the entertainment." Fearful that the pair might kill him, Emile murders his wife with the lover's revolver. In a hilarious scene of courtroom parody, the lover is sentenced to a 20-year jail term, and Emile yelps gleefully to the audience "That's the system...