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Screamed London's evening paper headlines": FARES SHOCK! Sprouts & Privacy. Last week fare shocks and Tiddlydike nostalgia reached a record peak. Dr. Richard Beeching, the blunt, brusque businessman hired-for $67,000 a year, highest salary ever paid a British civil servant-to shunt the nationalized railways out of the red, announced a nationwide 10% fare boost...
About one-third of the people polled so far--including a civil servant or two--just didn't know who Chadwick was. Of the rest, "about half were convinced their state legislators were corrupt, while the other half weren't quite sure," one pollster noted...
...running these big, often balky cities, with their honking traffic problems, endless building and demolition, civic scandals and sinister crimes is one that would tax and unnerve a Caesar. The proper mayor of the modern U.S. city is not merely a civil servant, a political boss and a ceremonial ribbon snipper; nowadays he must be a skilled sociologist, a knowledgeable planner, a first sergeant, a public relations expert and a television performer. For better or worse, he is the image of his city-and, to a remarkable degree, His Honor usually mirrors his city's personality...
...From Servant to Saint. Progress up the ladder is slow, but the steps are clearly marked. A diocesan commission must first examine the life of the candidate; a favorable verdict is passed on to the Congregation of Rites, which then lists the person as a "servant of God." After the evidence is re-examined by the congregation, the servant may be declared by the Pope as a "venerable." The venerable's cause is then challenged by a devil's advocate (real title: promoter of the faith), who will search for scandal in the person's life, question...
World War II Candidates. The Vatican's new list of causes contains a number that date back for centuries; one of the longest-standing is that of the 15th century painter Fra Angelico, who is still only a "servant of God." But two potential saints owe their candidacies to World War II Nazi persecution. One is the Polish Franciscan priest Maximilian Kolbe, who was shipped to a concentration camp in 1939. There one day, Father Kolbe volunteered to take the place of a married man who had been scheduled for punishment. The penalty: death by starvation in Auschwitz...