Word: gaud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...posters. The carvings and furnishings from its marble and mosaic chapel, study and bedroom display a gaunt tension that clearly foreshadows the Jugendstil 30 years before its prime. Sketches for carved colonnades incorporate fantastic root-and-branch configurations that would have delighted Spain's art nouveau master, Antoni Gaudí. Ludwig's two other palaces both evoke the rococo splendors of Louis XIV of France. From Linderhof come tutti-frutti-colored, specially commissioned Sèvres porcelain, embroidered screens inspired by Boucher, and Ludwig's magnificent throne, a Beardsleyan Oriental divan backed by three haughty, blue...
...Administrator William S. Gaud is understandably anxious to emphasize that foreign aid is not merely an exercise in misguided altruism. In fiscal 1968, for example, 96% of AID-appropriated funds were spent in the U.S. by recipient nations. And the agency can tick off an impressive list of U.S. industries that will suffer because of last week's House action: fertilizers will lose $125 million; fuels, $35 million; metals, $85 million; chemicals, $75 million; pulp and paper, $25 million; machinery and equipment, $150 million; vehicles and parts, $80 million; rail equipment, $20 million; rubber, $15 million; various other industries...
Flimflam. Gaud, 60, promptly issued "rectification orders." Embarrassed AID officials started reshipping 18 crates of tool kits-which had rusted on Buenos Aires docks for nine years-to Paraguay. They also cut off aid to Vietnamese businessmen who had been accused of importing antiaircraft weapon parts only to sell them to the Viet Cong...
...greater concern to Gaud and the Administration were charges of malfeasance against AID personnel that indirectly touched several longtime associates of Vice President Hubert Humphrey's. Herbert J. Waters, 55, director of AID'S "war on hunger," resigned recently at Gaud's direct request, after three men under Waters' jurisdiction were implicated in a $250,000 flim-flam with a Belgian firm that AID paid for work never done. Waters managed Humphrey's senatorial campaigns in 1954 and 1960, was the Minnesota Senator's administrative assistant until he was appointed...
...contritely candid performance last week before the House Government Operations Subcommittee, Gaud pleaded mea culpa for AID's foulups. In defense of his agency, however, Gaud pointed out that in the seven years of its existence, Congress has never seen fit to put AID on a permanent basis, financing it from year to year on an ever-diminishing, hard-fought budget. AID is now operating on the slimmest yearly allowance ever ($1.9 billion). As a result, it has been unable to attract enough qualified personnel. In the wake of AID'S latest trouble, Congress may slash the agency...