Word: graftings
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...heavens." At civic ceremonies, invocations are somewhat shorter and simpler than in the past-and may even on occasion live up to the standards of frankness set by the Right Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes Jr., Episcopal Bishop of Boston, who suggests that his priests say: "God forgive the graft that went into this building." Despite the Supreme Court decision, many schools opened this fall with some form of prayer. In San Francisco, the midmorning snack for kindergarten, first-and second-grade children is invariably preceded by a bouncy hymnlet that teach ers have dubbed "The Graham Cracker Song": We thank...
...about run out of patience with François Duvalier, the hard-eyed dictator who holds ruthless power in Haiti. All aid-amounting to $7,250,000 this year-to Duvalier's graft-ridden regime has been suspended for three months. No more arms are being sent in, and the U.S. has demanded a weapon-by-weapon accounting for the $1,100,000 worth shipped in since 1960 to equip Haiti's regular army, air force and coast guard. Now, Colonel Robert Debs Heinl Jr., chief of the 50-man U.S. Marine mission sent down to train Haiti...
After Diem took office in 1954, his brother and sister-in-law moved into the Freedom Palace with him. Nhu advised his brother on army promotions, official appointments and business contracts. Inevitably Saigon gossip linked Nhu and his wife to government graft. Madame Nhu indignantly denies the charge. "Money enslaves people," she says, "I use money in the most artistic way when I have...
...whole shooting match a "Castro-Communist" plot. No doubt the Communists would like to overthrow the man who let Guatemala be used as a base for last year's Cuban invasion. But the Reds are by no means the only ones fed up with Ydigoras. Because of organized graft that flourishes like a fungus, the majority of Guatemala's business and professional community has long been bitterly disgusted. Corruption chokes the inflow of capital to a trickle. Anyone wanting to invest in Guatemala faces a maze of red tape that, in many cases, can be cut only...
...their worst, the schools are mired in graft, patronage and political pressure. At best, the system is magnificently tuned to local needs, producing some of the best schools in the world...