Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Handsome, fire-eating Ernesto Enrique Sammartino, 46, was a charter member of the anti-Perón club. In 1940, the Colonels' Clique tossed him into jail for his outspoken opposition. Last year, back in Congress, he called for a non-violent "civil insurrection." The President paid little attention, but dapper Ernesto included Eva Duarte de Perón in his attacks, and she does not take such things lightly...
...good war record behind him (he had lost an eye in a Jap air raid on Burma), he had come to Stoke in search of a peacetime career. A "houseparty" exam at the government's 300-year-old manor house is now the way to get a topflight civil service job in England...
...House of Lords that Stoke was turning out "plausible smart alecks," the government's Final Selection Board has accepted Stoke's recommendations nine out of ten times. Foreign service takes all its officers from Stoke; home service still chooses some by written and oral exams. U.S. Civil Service Commissioner Arthur S. Flemming, after watching 21 candidates go through Stoke, returned to the U.S. "definitely impressed." Said he last week: "The ones that survived the test were certainly outstanding. The ones who weren't outstanding didn't get through...
Ballroom Questionnaire. In the quiet grandeur of Stoke's ballroom, the candidates were greeted by Colonel J. R. Pinsent, 59, chairman of Britain's Civil Service Selection Board. Colonel Pinsent invited the candidates to patronize the manor-house bar (Scotch, 30? a nip) in their free time, added a warning: "Naturally, if you start wrecking the furniture, we would probably have some doubts as to your fitness for government service...
...never had a crackup. A fortnight ago Wildcatter Weiss got a chance to purr: because of a boycott of New York International (Idlewild) Airport by domestic airlines, the airport management hired Standard to fly Governor Thomas E. Dewey to Idlewild for the dedication ceremonies. Last week Weiss asked the Civil Aeronautics Board to certify Standard as a scheduled carrier, said frankly that he had been making scheduled flights (forbidden under his "irregular" registration) for the last five months...