Word: officialdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enjoy much more freedom of maneuver in foreign and domestic economic policy. For one thing, the better balance relieves the U.S. of much political pressure from the French, who have brandished their large hoard of dollars as a weapon and, says Chief Economic Adviser Walter Heller, often made U.S. officialdom feel "like mendicants"; last year the French drained off $500 million worth of U.S. gold and threatened to convert even more dollars. No one can be certain if or when the U.S. will achieve a surplus-partly because foreign nations will take steps of their own if they begin...
...caretakers out by cutting off their water and electricity. For Russia it was injury added to insults. Albania's Red Boss Enver Hoxha once called Nikita Khrushchev a "revisionist" to his face, and reportedly ordered Soviet submarines out of Albania's naval base. In Moscow, Russian officialdom squealed like stuck imperialists, complained that the Albanians "trample underfoot the elementary standards of international law." What's more, said Moscow, Albanians are Indian givers, since the buildings "stand on territory presented by the Albanian government as a gift." Gift, shmift, sniffed Tirana-reporting that they were confiscated because...
...worker in Washington's vast army of civil servants. While he lived, Washington Post Publisher Philip Graham liked to describe the Post as "an egalitarian paper." The description fits. The Post says that it carries more comic strips than any other newspaper in the U.S., but for Washington officialdom, the Post also runs the most carefully wrought-and the most widely read-editorials in the nation's capital. In all branches and at all levels of Government, it is regarded as compulsory reading; one Post survey showed a near-saturation circulation in both houses of Congress and among...
Communist officialdom blamed disastrous droughts and freezes for the poor harvest. But Nikita Khrushchev angrily blamed sloppy management for chronic agricultural crises. U.S. farmers, said Nikita, protect their fertilizer in plastic bags, but in Russia the piles of mineral fertilizer shipped out from factories are allowed to lie around in heaps, exposed to the weather. In winter, snorted Nikita, kids slide down the piles on their sleds. Making another of his Utopian promises to catch up with U.S. production, Khrushchev also said that by 1965 Russia hoped to turn out 35 million tons of fertilizer. Though this would equal...
...practice employed to a certain degree throughout Latin America. The history of the idea dates to a student strike and subsequent convention in Cordoba, Argentina, in 1919. Protesting against the ancient and restrictive control of university life by the Church, the Cordoba students staged a noisy walkout against scholastic officialdom. The result was an independent charter for the school. The student congress that took place in Cordoba under the new grant cited the principle of university autonomy as the end of all educational reform...