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...Civil Servant. In Mountjoy, Ont., Wilf Perreault, fed up, resigned from his job as the town's police chief, fire warden, dogcatcher, tax collector, poundkeeper, building inspector, liquor inspector, fence viewer, cemetery inspector, weight inspector and school attendance officer...
...member of the British Foreign Office once blamed the relative lack of appeal of this country's public service on the fact that Americans can hold no titles of nobility. "An English civil servant will slave for forty years," he said, "just so he may someday be tapped on the head by his Sovereign." This ingrained avoidance of the trappings of royalty may also explain why Americans whose memories do not reach back to 1936 are somewhat bewildered at the British Commonwealth's preoccupation with the Coronation. The island that has lived so long on austerity, boiled, seems ready...
...story is about probation officers--or, more properly, about a prematurely retired civil servant, who becomes a probation officer in default of anything better to do, and who gradually comes to realize what's what in the world. The acting, most of it done by Cecil Parker and Celia Johnson, is as good as the rather uninspiring script allows, but the whole thing bogs down into a sentimental quagmire too often, and many of the characters and situations are trite. As propaganda, the picture does manage to bang over some not too subtle arguments about the treatment of offenders...
These achievements are clear-cut. Most of the provost's work, however, has been less dramatic. The yearly budget, for example, drab as it may seen, is an annual ordeal which combines all the problems of running the Faculty. As the Corporation's "servant," the Provost must prepare the budget, balancing the many and diverse needs of Faculty research, instruction, and so forth-to the satisfaction of not only the Faculty, but of one of the nation's most parsimonious trustee boards. This includes adjustments in the permanent tenure system, which is not wholly rigid, and in the number...
...Adventures in Wonderland: " 'That's nothing to what I could say if I chose,' the Duchess replied in a pleased tone." Diligently learned English. French and German, and displayed his talents last week in a trilingual press conference. At college, friends tagged him "the perfect civil servant...