Word: officialdom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then began a prolonged display of myopic ineptitude on the part of Los Angeles officialdom. With the newspapers playing the story for laughs-it was a case of "abducktion," one paper said-the machinery of justice clanked ponderously into motion. Officials decided that Lopez and his friends would be tried on charges of theft. Lawyers solemnly prepared briefs, detectives determinedly interrogated witnesses. Until the very end, nobody in the city government who was involved in the case seemed capable of seeing that what was called for was not mechanical law enforcement but compassion and common sense...
...been exchanging letters with President Kennedy, has had a visit from Brother Bobby, and has been successfully negotiating with the U.S. for more financial aid. Without warning, the Solidarity Congress organizers found themselves trapped, tricked, merry-go-rounded, bureaucratized, buck-passed, blind-alleyed and discriminated against by Brazilian officialdom from Goulart on down...
Gung-Ho. Pickering nourishes no such sentimental attachment to the past. Faced with the touchy problem of whether JPL could build a 447-lb. Mariner, he dug into his work with the quiet devotion that is much more characteristic of him than his loud Explorer forays into Washington officialdom. He held endless meetings, consulted everybody worth a hearing. One scientist who heard that a pet instrument would have to be abandoned on the newer, smaller satellite got so emotional that he was almost fired to keep the peace. Pickering never lost his composure. "I had to establish," he says...
...than a reporter's simple insistence on keeping mum. Clough's story said that the Red trawlers had come snooping because of secrets sold to Russia by John Vassall, a clerk in the British Admiralty and a known homosexual. One of the more scandalous episodes in British officialdom, the Vassall affair did not end with the Admiralty clerk's imprisonment (TIME, Nov. 2). British press stories sparked the official inquiry that nabbed Clough. How could the papers have been so knowing without leaks from the Admiralty itself? Nor was Clough's conviction likely...
...with youth." The nation's administrative structure, which has wheezed along with little change since Napoleon's time, will be modernized. Gaullist technicians are already planning to overhaul Paris. Though 18% of the entire population is concentrated in the capital and growing by 100,000 a year, officialdom seems more concerned with preserving old houses than providing new ones. Says one minister: "We're going to take Paris out of the age of the fiacre...