Word: inspectors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally getting word of the Bowmans' plight, San Francisco's Mayor George Christopher last March sent a long letter to Police Chief Thomas Cahill demanding action. Cahill assigned Inspector Nathaniel Pedrini to the case-and things began to change. Pedrini attached a tape recorder to the telephone to gather evidence, persuaded the telephone company to tap the line until midnight and carefully check every call. When the police finally traced the culprits, the tap led to 22-year-old Steven Van Otten and 19-year-old Barry Van Otten, the sons of a policeman in suburban Daly City...
...sherry cabinet in Harvard Yard long since turned over to another president, his diplomat's striped pants put into mothballs, the quiet New Englander embarked on a new career-unofficial Inspector General of U.S. Education. Dr. James Bryant Conant toured high schools, investigated curriculums and teachers, and in 1959 mildly concluded that the U.S. high school could be improved "with no radical change." But then Conant got around to taking a look at slum education. His report, Slums and Suburbs (McGraw-Hill; $3.95), published last week, shows how incensed a former Harvard president...
...Spartan-like dedication to no frills and no featherbedding. Jaguar's ugly red-brick plant in Coventry is starkly functional: Sir William's own bare office is ornamented by a single ceramic jaguar. Working nine to twelve hours a day, he doubles unofficially as his own chief inspector, and expects each of his executives to fill at least two posts. The result: Jaguar has probably the lowest ratio of office to production workers of any major British automaker...
Accent (CBS, 1:30-2 p.m.). Columnist Art Buchwald is interviewed in Paris, also an inspector for the Guide Michelin...
...inspector has already approved the new tower, Channon said...