Word: inspectorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME, May 20)? Last week the man responsible for discovering and curbing all these irregularities was back from a new and unpublicized visit to Saigon aimed at investigating currency manipulations and bringing still further control out of chaos. He is J. K. (for John Kenneth) Mansfield, who, as Inspector General of Foreign Assistance, patrols an unending beat, checking on U.S. military and economic help going to 97 countries...
...post ever since it was created four years ago, Chicago-born Mansfield, 44, is a onetime investigative staff member of congressional committees who bears the rank of Assistant Secretary of State, and is empowered to suspend almost any aid program. Thus Mansfield and his 24 fellow traveling inspectors are greeted on their journeys abroad with apprehensive cooperation, if not jubilation-further encouraged by the frequent assumption that the Inspector General is a relative of Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (he isn't). Mansfield and his operatives have tracked everything from 24 million bushels of U.S. wheat diverted from Austria...
...Caesar's Wife." The Inspector General's office itself has never spent more than $800,000 a year, though it is authorized expenses up to $2,000,000. One official explains that Mansfield's men, a mix of ex-FBI agents, Foreign Service officers, accountants, lawyers and computer experts, are "deeply imbued with the Caesar's wife idea. We couldn't be auditing and checking on others and not be extremely careful ourselves." The I.G.'s gumshoes log upwards of 1,000,000 miles a year by everything from DC-8 to dugout canoe...
Belgian-born Georges Simenon is a great tattletale. His endless series of novels now total about 500, include a mound of pulpy romances, scores of Inspector Maigret mysteries, and dozens of gritty, graceful character studies such as The Premier and The Train. These were first published separately in France some years ago. Both are typical, tidy iterations of an old Simenon thesis: escape in any real sense is impossible...
...Surete arrives. Irritable and coming down with a cold, Inspector Graziani starts tracking down the surviving occupants of the compartment. But locating them takes time. Meanwhile someone else is having better luck-and simplifying the Inspector's task...