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Some bosses prefer to handle things less rigidly, try to turn the complaints into chuckles. An executive of Monsanto Chemical Co. has put out a complete "Exec-Chart" ticking off everyone from "Top Dogs" to "Hoi Polloi," lists their "visible appurtenances" of power, from "shoeshine service" to "plant stands." Sample: "Luncheon Menu for Top Dogs: Cream cheese on whole wheat, buttermilk and indigestion tablets. Menu for Hoi Polloi: Clam chowder, frankfurter and beans, rolls and butter, raisin pie a la mode, two cups of coffee." Pacific Gas & Electric Co., like many others, sensibly gives a man what he needs...
...French colonials make their own contribution to chaos. Some, hoping to maintain privileges in the rubber-rich South, are encouraging the Vietnamese generals to intrigue against Diem; other Frenchmen want to replace Diem with Buu Hoi, 39, a left-wing leprosy expert who has not lived in Indo-China for 20 years. In the Communist North, a 20-man French mission hopes to keep "the French presence" in the Viet Minh state, and do business there; there is even talk of French help to rebuild the vital strategic railroad from Hanoi to Langson on the Red China frontier...
...Proust. Wandering nostalgically over the condemned playgrounds in The Last Resorts, Cleveland (The Proper Bostonians) Amory tries to catch the flavor of their heydays. He does better as an M.C. than an M. Proust, but his gossipy barrage of light anecdotes and heavy name-dropping should delight hoi polloi and aristoi alike...
Then the Senators began wandering through Lee's intriguing past: he had been born Ephraim Zinovi Liberman in Harbin, Manchuria (in 1907), had gone to Moscow briefly in 1930 under a Chinese identity card and the name of Li Hoi-min. Twice he was refused U.S. citizenship because, said the court, he was "not attached to the principles of the U.S. Constitution" (presumably because his first wife had divorced him on grounds of physical cruelty). In 1941 he was naturalized at last. The Senators hinted that Lee, in Commerce, had held up aviation gasoline shipments to Nationalist China...
Leaving Portland last week, Mayor Riley was unabashed by his mission. Said he: "I'm going to talk to everyone, from the hoi polloi on down. . . . I've got one helluva responsibility ahead...