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Another source of comfort used to be the countless signs of American inventiveness and ingenuity, a tradition stretching from colonial tinker to modern technocrat, asserting not only mastery over nature but also a sly, triumphant outwitting of every kind of adversity. It was the frontier spirit mechanized. Despite the triumph of the moon voyages, that spirit now seems suddenly unequal to mundane problems: they are beyond the powers of technological or scientific tinkering...
...strong grip on military spending. He also pushed agrarian reform and a birth control pro gram, notwithstanding the Vatican's opposition. Unfortunately, none of this meant much to the peasants, to whom the diminutive (5 ft. 2 in.) Lleras Restrepo appears as a somewhat abrasive and distant technocrat. "The lesson," he said, visibly shocked at the closeness of the election, "is to be in closer contact with the masses...
...manager of the country since 1964, Stoph is admired as an able technocrat who has come closer than anyone else to making East German Communism work. His assistants call him simply "Der Chef" (The Boss) and, according to Werner Barm, a top East German party man who defected to the West last August, they defer to "his skill, his solidly based knowledge, his sense of justice, and not least his secure and reserved appearance." Yet it was Stoph who ran East Germany's brutal secret police after the war and, as Defense Minister later on, set up East Germany...
...contrast, the hawks are on the rise. Moshe Dayan remains Defense Minister, and his wing of the Labor party has been strengthened by inclusion in the Cabinet of Technocrat Shimon Peres, who once served as David Ben-Gurion's Deputy Defense Minister...
...departments, and appointed officials such as chamber of commerce presidents. These councils will levy local taxes, prepare local budgets and plan economic development. If the plan is approved in the forthcoming referendum-and that approval seems almost certain-the regions may be able to "renew their personality," as French Technocrat Louis Armand once put it, "without having to do it through that monster that is Paris...