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...suggests that the interests of the community of students, both as employees and as consumers, would best be served if Mr. Burke held only the job of Director of Student Employment, if the University employed another administrator to direct the HSA, and if a more active and more disinterested watchdog committee were appointed to mediate the relations of the HSA and the community--The Editors
...away and claim a big write-off. The Bureau of Internal Revenue has shied away from contesting these appraisals, feeling incompetent to judge art, but reputable connoisseurs and galleries have grown uneasy for the reputation of art dealers as a whole. It took the help of Manhattan's watchdog Art Dealers Association of America for the Revenue Bureau to win a specific victory that could mark the beginning of an effective crackdown...
Virginia's Harry Byrd, 75, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, had been ailing for weeks, and Washingtonians freely surmised that the old budget watchdog had lost not only his bite, but also his bark. Little did they know. Last week Byrd came out roaring like a lion after reading in the Washington Post that "Budget Director Kermit Gordon told a congressional committee yesterday that a balanced budget would lead to increased unemployment, higher taxes and a general economic decline...
Died. Hugh Fulton, 54, dogged chief counsel for Harry S. Truman's World War II watchdog committee on graft in defense contracts, a close Truman friend and speechwriter in the 1944 vice-presidential campaign, after which he returned to private practice; of a stroke; in Manhattan...
...bureaucracy*- crack New Zealanders, is "like boring a hole through treacle." Now the nation is considering a solution to government regimentation and pettifoggery. Last week, after a year of deliberation, New Zealand was pressing ahead with plans for a new, independent government official who will act as a civic watchdog in much the same fashion as the famed, 153-year-old Swedish institution known as the ombudsman, or grievance...