Word: officialdom
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...savagery that gripped Hough, a garbage-strewn, rat-infested Negro section of Cleveland that is known as "Rough Hough" or simply "The Jungle," was a flagrant example of irresponsibility on the part of both Negroes and white officialdom. If ever a slum was predictably ripe for riot, it was Hough. Some 60,000 Negroes are jammed into a two-square-mile warren of squat apartment houses and decaying mansions carved up into flats; the area's crime rate is the highest in the city; flocks of prostitutes hustle passers-by at every chance; and hatred for the city...
...Northwest Indiana Crime Commission, a private organization, has sporadically attempted to clean up the county, but has been hampered by a low budget and the obvious indifference of local and state officialdom. Commission Director Elmer C. Jacobsen, 49, a hard-bitten veteran of 16 years in the FBI, riled Governor Roger Branigin this month when he publicly protested the relicensing of Gary's Boulevard Tap, which he called a "notorious B-girl joint," and complained about a "wave of outlawry unmatched in the memory of living men." Though that may have been overstating the case, Jacobsen is hardly exaggerating...
Teach-Ins are only part of the IUC plan to fill the "information gap between officialdom and the public," said Harry Zinn, a professor at B.U. The committee also hopes to support political candidates and to promote community action through television and radio programs. Congressional hearings, and community study groups, he said...
When Soviet Rebel Novelist Valery Tarsis, 59, was permitted to fly to England last month for a lecture engagement, Western observers were frankly surprised. Tarsis had spent six months in a Moscow insane asylum for his outspoken attacks on Soviet officialdom in his first published underground novel, The Bluebottle, badgered the authorities still further last year with a scathing account of life on the funny farm, called Ward 7. All the same, counseled Komsomolskaya Pravda, "Let him go. We know why they [the West] need him. It is to pump all the anti-Soviet fascist vomit out of this mental...
Nevertheless, the imposing array of officialdom at the Honolulu talks signaled that the President intended to conduct a wide-ranging examination of the military, political and psychological conduct of the Viet Nam war-indeed, of U.S. strategy in all Southeast Asia. From Washington came Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Earle Wheeler, retired Joint Chairman Maxwell Taylor, White House Adviser McGeorge Bundy, Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John Gardner and Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman. From Saigon came a 28-member South Vietnamese entourage headed by Ky, Chief...