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...financial affairs is intense little Spyros Markezinis, chief theorist of Papagos' Greek Rally Party. Markezinis' program: 1) reorganization of overlapping government ministries, 2) decentralization of government from Athens. By ordering a merger of the national bank and the bank of Athens last month, Markezinis aroused the ire of shareholders, but, when effective, the merger will reduce the number of bank clerks by 2,000. In his reorganization of ministries, he plans to drop 15,000 bureaucrats from the government payroll, thus balance the budget...
Bizarre as it may appear to this column's regular readers, our acknowledgment must go to the populations of Massachusetts and University Halls. Not only have they provided much news-stuff, those small and often noxious rulings that tickle one's ire, but their attitude in great part has made publishing worthwhile...
...Table has long aroused college men both pro and con. The sight of a group of tuxedoed men eating better food on a raised platform has stirred the democratic ire, of many a student. The Table's opponents claim that it is a snobbish piece of showiness, while its defenders say that it is a good way of bringing together the House staff and undergraduates...
...campaign for the nomination. His boldest stroke: seizing on the Taft "steal" of delegate votes in Texas as a weapon to break the power of the Taft forces in the convention. Worked as an Eisenhower troubleshooter during the election campaign, but principally in New York, to avoid rousing the ire of Midwestern Taftmen...
Something snapped in Eaton's cranium. But he did not jump out of the window. His soul jumped out instead. He leaned forward. Utterance of some sort there must be. Had Eaton satire only lent him utterance, he might have said "when you call him, that, smile." Had Eaton ire only lent him utterance, he was. But neither instinct came alone; instead ire and satire met in one grand incandescence; and voicing this potent compound, as only Eaton can, he rasped forth the cry of Kent in one long lingering lung--"OH RINEHART...