Word: prefectly
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...Harvard Hockey team will be seeking its first prefect Ivy record since 1957 as it meets the Yale icemen in In galls Rink in New Haven tonight...
...Years. Once in, the students are paid some $475 a month for the 29-month course. The first year they are likely to be sent out to a foreign embassy or a prefect's office in the provinces. "It's learning by doing," says Director Racine. Part of the second year is spent in private industry or working for a nationalized company. There is no formal curriculum, but the students are required to write papers on such issues as monetary reform or the 1973 Brandt-Brezhnev accord. They also attend frequent seminars, conducted by top civil servants, diplomats...
...politicians, who are being blamed for doing nothing to improve Naples' woefully antiquated sanitation system. With typical Italian overstatement, the city officials are being referred to as "that band of cuckolds and brigands." Last weekend a mob of unemployed mussel fishermen assaulted the car of Naples Prefect Domenico Amari as it approached city hall, setting off three days of rioting that resulted in a dozen injuries and eight arrests. Politicians of all shades loudly began accusing one another of negligence and corruption, tossing the blame around like an infected mussel. Exhausted by the uproar, Mayor Gerardo De Michele abruptly...
...Vatican's protagonist in the argument is the prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, American John Cardinal Wright. Essentially, Wright has argued, children should not be treated like "little tots" but like "little men," whose consciences need careful formation at an early age. The proper age, said Wright, was about seven. Confession then, Wright argued, might "save the person at his roots" by correcting bad habits that "could jeopardize forever [his] recuperating capacity...
...strike began three weeks ago when Marseille's new prefect of police, Rene Heckenroth, responded to political pressure to clean up the city by suddenly closing down the 30-odd hotels where the prostitutes took their clients. With that, the girls walked off the job-but not before consulting Lawyer Emile Pollak, who told them to extend their walkout for 30 days. "On the 31st day," he warned, "you'll see what state Marseille wilt...