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...excitement and spirit of the Environmental Protection Agency diminished when-again because of Watergate-William Ruckelshaus was drafted temporarily to run the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Since the President has now appointed Kansas City Police Chief Clarence M. Kelley permanent FBI director, Ruckelshaus' future is uncertain. His able stand-in at EPA, Robert Fri, now insists he will be returning to private life in a few weeks...
...total dedication. They fondly began collecting "Solti-isms" that result from his frenzied blend of Hungarian, German and English. Examples: "Dis is it as ve vould never did it." To signify that the chorus was a bit muddy: "Here we have ze svimming." Running up to compliment a stand-in singer on his performance, he cried: "Congratulations, I thought it would be twice...
Contrary to popular myth, bureaucracies do not run on momentum alone. They need people. Yet the Nixon Administration has been operating for months with one-fourth of its sub-Cabinet posts either empty or filled with stand-in appointees. At a recent celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, eight of eleven high department offices were represented on the podium by acting officials. As they were introduced to the bureaucracy-wise audience of mainly H.E.W. workers, the ludicrousness of their transient titles touched off muffled titters that soon turned to roars of laughter...
...York, McGovern held a press conference to announce that former Mayor Robert Wagner would be his state campaign chairman. Amid all the activity, he wrote Nixon that he would not personally take up the President's offer of foreign policy briefings, but designated as his stand-in Adviser Paul Warnke, who served as an Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Johnson Administration...
Bible's first shepherd, slain by brother Cain, a jealous tiller of the soil. As a stand-in for St. Christopher, the bearer of the young Christ, Tiffauges must carry Tournier's most cumbersome load. This is the burden of innocence, the surprisingly heavy weight of the holy child, who is shouldered above the flood but also protects his carrier from sin and danger...