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...threw in the trunk of the getaway car. Again, no one made a move to interfere and no one noted the license plate. Just as impassively, onlookers looked on as a pair of "robbers" smashed a store window and started looting. Only one man, a 35-year-old civil servant, lunged forward to tackle one of the looters. No one else moved...
Maddox, who is neither a public servant, nor an executive, nor an administrator does not conform to ideological standards. His views have always related to himself, his family, and his restaurant rather than to government. He has never understood the legislative functions of the governor, much less performed them in any fashion, liberal or conservative. He is now what he was as a campaigner and as a restaurant owner: a little man who shakes hands with the small-time businessman and the white worker. He delivers a lot more of those flat and amateurish speeches then he did before becoming...
...have made every attempt to flout their independence. They have replaced the Baby Elephant with a star as their symbol McDonald campaigned against "the servant-boss relationship with the National Committee" and asked for fund-raisers as part of his staff. McDonald is not the only one who wishes the Federation to "go it alone...
...Harold Wil son has never been noted for excessive chivalry toward opponents-or subordinates. But rarely has Wilson stirred as much angry reaction among both Labor colleagues and Tory opponents as he did with his bitter attack upon the character and conduct of Colonel Leslie ("Sammy") Lohan, the civil servant in charge of governmental press relations on all questions touching national security...
...committee filed its report. Wilson, it said, was wrong. Another man might have apologized and let the matter drop. The Prime Minister did neither. Having failed to indict the Express, he simply switched his attack to Sammy Lohan. He issued a White Paper accusing the longtime civil servant of not having tried hard enough to stop publication by the Express, and of failing to warn his superiors in time that Pincher's article was about to be published...