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Watson has also been faulted for the deterioration of Democratic organizations around the country. Yet some of the criticism has doubtless been unfair. He has never been a policymaker and, despite his experience as Texas Democratic chairman, never was a political technician of national stature. He functioned strictly as an operations officer who followed his chief's orders with uncritical zeal. Traditionally, a Postmaster General devotes much of his time to high-level politicking. With Johnson out of the race, however, General Watson may be able to give full attention to improving the postal service. It will also give...
Washington was criticized later for this performance, but it is clearly in character for him. He is not a politician but a bureaucrat and technician. He was not elected to office but appointed. As a result he has not been forced to keep in touch with the people of the black ghetto, and he has not kept in touch with them. They have never fully trusted him, and after the King Weekend, they will trust him even less...
There is a measure of truth on both sides. Godard may be the most inventive cinema technician since Orson Welles-as well as the most infuriating. And for the same reason: to him, whatever rules exist are made to be broken...
...woman technician was killed and four other persons were injured Friday afternoon when a violent explosion shattered a laboratory being used for Harvard Medical School research in Boston City Hospital's Thorndike Building...
...poster girl. Under a blazing sun in Mampong Akwapim, near Ghana's capital of Accra, the brass band played fortissimo. Then the drums beat. Then there were speeches in English, French and the local language, Twi. At last Yaa was handed up to the platform, where a technician stood poised with his jet gun. He placed it against Yaa's arm and pressed the pedal trigger. Yaa opened her mouth in a gap-toothed smile...