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...contrast, a laudatory report from the Foreign Service Inspector, Ambassador Robert McClintock, was accidentally misfiled under the name of another Charles W. Thomas, then Consul General in Antwerp. The report was eventually logged into its proper place, two days after Thomas had been turned down by the promotion board. The board deemed it too much bother to reopen the case...
After the Geneva settlement of 1962 which followed the failure of Boun Oum's right-wing forces to defeat the neutralist Pathet-Lao allies, he had to settle for a Vice-Premiership and the title of "inspector-General of the kingdom." Nevertheless, Boun Oum's close links with the CIA have remained intact, as has his tight control over Southern Laos...
...something more disconcerting: the biggest shake-up the police department has known in more than 20 years. Commissioner Patrick Murphy had heads rolling with considerable speed. A month ago he removed the top two officials of the narcotics division and transferred 16 other commanders. Last week he demoted two inspectors and removed six precinct captains. He replaced the high-ranking chief of patrol with Inspector Donald Cawley, who was promoted past 72 others with more seniority. He reached out of the city to appoint a former chief of police from Long Island to head a new criminal-justice bureau...
...Kentucky Military Institute wrote its alumni before it became secularized as the Kentucky Academy. "Unfortunately, each year fewer people seem to accept this premise." Frank Miller, an official with the National Association of Independent Schools, suggests another plausible reason for a decline in the academies' popularity. "Some young inspector comes by in the morning, drops a quarter on the bed, and if it doesn't bounce, the kid has to make it again. These days kids ask: 'How is this kind of stuff making me a better person...
Then the Marine Silent Drill Team appears. Ten minutes of movements without commands, every exercise counted out; circles, squares, lines through lines and, finally, one long line of 24 Marines ready for inspection. Sergeant John Marley, the inspector, grabs a presented rifle. He whirls it, twists it, winds it round his shoulders, again and again with baton-twirler precision, and then flings it back. Next the double inspection-also known as "the mirror." Marley exchanges rifles with another Marine, and they repeat the routine, movements perfectly synchronized, rifles beating the air before being flipped back with the same seemingly casual...