Word: bureaucratized
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Dealer in Skulls. Accused of responsibility in the millions of deaths, Eichmann protested, "I have never killed a Jew or a non-Jew-I have never killed anybody." In the tones of a triumphant bureaucrat, he swore that he had never given an order for any killing: "And I know that no one can produce a document to show that I have ever done such a thing...
...keeping its own shiny. Admen have learned to put up with image-smashing by professors, but what really hurts is when one of their own hacks away at the pedestal. Last week, on a Washington television program, ex-Adman (cofounder of the high-powered agency, Benton & Bowles, Inc.), ex-Bureaucrat (OPA price administrator), ex-Governor (of Connecticut), ex-Ambassador (to India), ex-Congressman and now Under Secretary of State Chester Bowles committed the Madison Avenue equivalent of treason: he dismissed his advertising career as a youthful mistake...
...warm friends. He lost most of those when he began carrying out Kennedy's injunction to run the Pentagon from the top down. As often as not, he turned to his top civilian assistants (see box), rather than to military professionals, for advice. "The ideas," as one veteran bureaucrat said, "came from the top.'' The work of the Chiefs of Staff in the decision-making over such key questions as the size of the retaliatory force and the role of conventional warfare was sharply curtailed. The chiefs gave their opinions, and General Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman...
...refine its tin ore, the U.S. showed its cards by lending Bolivia $10 million to revamp the nationalized tin mines, which account for 67% of the impoverished nation's export income. Last week the Communists dealt off another, even bigger offer. In La Paz, Nicolai Rodionov, Soviet bureaucrat, announced that Russia would bid not only the smelter but also a $150 million low-interest, long-term loan for Russian technical aid to Bolivia's government-owned petroleum and tin corporations. Russia might also buy, all of Bolivia's high-cost tin ore, currently in slack demand...
...born in Nebraska, the son of a fire-breathing Republican lawyer who, as a political follower of the late George Norris, became Nebraska's attorney general. After graduating from the University of Nebraska law school with top honors, Sorensen followed his political instincts to Washington as a young bureaucrat, worked for the Federal Security Agency, then for Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas before signing on with freshman Senator John Kennedy as a research assistant and speechwriter...