Word: watchdogging
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Changes. To get off the spot, one member proposed at the next meeting that Watchdog Clair Taylor be made superintendent. The audience burst into cheers. The board unanimously voted him a five-year contract. But after thinking it over a week, Taylor declined the job. Instead he recommended that Governor Sigler ask for special powers to fire any board member he saw fit. Even some members of the school board were beginning to feel sheepish about their own conduct. Said Board Member Sadlowski: "I like to play politics, but clean politics. What we've been doing here...
...handle ERP's business abroad, a mission headed by a liaison officer of minister's rank would be sent to each participating country, supervised by a roving, $25,000-a-year ambassador-at-large. Congress would have a 14-member watchdog committee chosen from both Houses, which Vandenberg hoped Massachusetts' Representative Christian Herter would head...
...principal watchdog in the house of freedom, the U.S. press feels free to bark at anybody. And critics who call it to heel can expect to get bitten. As a result, thought Managing Editor James S. Pope of the Louisville Courier-Journal, the press is spoiled: in its daily performance there is much to criticize, but there is little sound criticism of the press. Last week Editor Pope went recruiting for knowing critics...
Specific Baruch demands: "More and better doctors-in more places"; more general practitioners; more hospitals; more group practice; more preventive medicine; "a new Cabinet post for health, education [and] social security"; a "watchdog committee" to help guard veterans' medicine against politicians...
...Life. In Marietta, Ga., jail officials sicked a pack of hounds on the trail of a couple of escaped prisoners, eventually found the crestfallen hounds tied to a tree. In Baltimore, William Ashby was charged with stealing a Doberman pinscher watchdog...