Word: technocrat
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...think they have a militarist vocation. A minority of the military calling themselves, let's say, intellectuals, may try to organize a militarist concept of government. They confuse technocracy and dictatorship and try to introduce technocracy through a military regime, using it as a medium to attain the technocrat's objective...
...family of missiles, the most recent of which is the Minuteman, current mainstay of the Strategic Air Command. Schriever rode his missiles to four-star rank and leadership of the Air Force Systems Command, where, at the early age of 50, he became his service's No. 1 technocrat. But last week, under a broiling sun and a flyover of 19 jet planes, Schriever, tall and still youthful-looking at 55, took the parade salute at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., and went into premature retirement...
...Defense Department, Schriever was discreet about his complaints. Apparently he intends to continue being that way as he begins a new career as a Washington-based industrial consultant. Unlike the bevy of generals who got the last word in their arguments with civilian superiors by writing mem oirs, Technocrat Schriever plans to pub lish nothing more controversial than a manual on the Systems Command...
...opinion of Rusk was low, Schlesinger is ungrudgingly admiring of some other members of the Kennedy cast. He found Lyndon Johnson "a good deal more attractive, more subtle and more formidable than I had expected." Defense Secretary Robert McNamara is a "tough, courteous and humane technocrat, for whom scientific management was not an end in itself but a means to the rationality of democratic government." White House Aide McGeorge Bundy, "in spite of the certified propriety of his background, had an audacious mind and was quite capable of contempt for orthodoxy." No one rates more admiration than veteran Diplomat Averell...
Reggie Maudling, Sir Alec's Chancellor of the Exchequer, is a relaxed Saint Bernard of a man. Ted Heath, an energetic "technocrat," made his reputation as Britain's hard-nosed representative in the ill-fated Common Market negotiations. Victory by either will represent a sharp break in the Old Etonian tradition of the gifted amateur in Tory politics. Indeed, Sir Alec may well be the last of that line. If so, the last of the amateurs had made a thoroughly professional decision last week. With parliamentary recess looming, the new top Tory will have ample time to marshal...