Word: meritable
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Flesh & the Devil. Since the war more women than men have won the prestigious Prix Femina (awarded by an all-woman jury), and more than 60 novels by women were thought to have enough merit to become candidates for the major literary awards. In a class by themselves are the prizewinning historical studies-51-year-old Marguerite Yourcenar's Hadrian's Memoirs (TIME, Nov. 29) and 38-year-old Zoé Oldenbourg's The Cornerstone (TIME, Jan. 10). But, like Colette, few of the ladies write historicals or go to libraries for material. They supply their...
...Civil Service Commission's present function should be split. "No single agency," says Worthy, "can properly represent both management and workers." He wants to leave to the commission the job of protecting merit-system workers. To a new office, stemming from the White House. Worthy would give the functions of a top management personnel director, charged with forming and coordinating management personnel policies...
...this fact was increasingly realized, virtually all federal jobs came to be filled through a nonpolitical merit system. The pendulum has swung so far that the elected officials of the government now have very little management leverage over their hordes of specialized and pseudo-specialized subordinates, many of whom pursue their professional interests without any relevance to national policy...
...responses to questions about the Ladejinsky muddle and ex-Senator Cain's criticism of the security program were among other deleted matters. Thus, what TV and radio were permitted to transmit was a deftly-selected fragment of the press conference rather than the real thing. There is much merit in letting the country view and hear such White House sessions. This could be a device through which a lot of ordinary people might gain deeper intimacy with the business of government. But under the censorship rules the show is a GOP propaganda project rather than a recording of history...
Weinberg is a former governor of the New York Stock Exchange and of the Investment Bankers Association of America. He has worked as an assistant to the administration of the Office of Defense Mobilization and in 1946 was awarded the Medal for Merit by President Truman...