Wenton Darlie in Transition
Nollson, John
John Nollson WENTON DARLIE IN TRANSITION Faithful readers of the daily press have had a hard time keeping up with the struggle for power that has been raging in some of the lesser-known government...
...Lance, who served briefly as budget director in the Carter administration, is known to be interested in the spot, but is reluctant to leave his business interests unattended...
...Postal Service...
...In their first act of defiance of the new administration, the Democrats refused to deliver this month's issue of the Reader's Digest...
...Most observers expect the controversy to die down as soon as the losers have a chance to blow off some steam...
...The Center is one of the lesser-known agencies of the federal government, but its skilled graduates have become famous for their ability to sniff out dangerous explosives and contraband drugs...
...It's become a major test of the new administration's commitment to law and order...
...The Post, however, is sticking by its story...
...Republican letter carriers have been assigned the routes in all the better neighborhoods, especially in the posh suburbs...
...John Nollson WENTON DARLIE IN TRANSITION Faithful readers of the daily press have had a hard time keeping up with the struggle for power that has been raging in some of the lesser-known government agencies...
...Camdon will bring in too large a staff...
...Maybe this individual initiative stuff has gotten out of hand...
...The ASPCA fears that the canines will be none the better off from all that marijuana toking...
...Wilter Camdon, inventor of the twelve-hour allergy capsule, still has the inside track...
...Liddy refused to be bought off with a lesser appointment to the chairmanship of Federal Prison Industries, Inc...
...There's been a terrible misunderstanding in the offices of the California Debris Commission...
...As everyone knows, the new administration has put a clamp on new federal hiring, so there's no chance that a real live operator will ever show up in the place...
...They're still looking for a survivor of the Hoover administration to head the National Cemetery System...
...Well, it's still chaos at the American Battle Monuments Commission...
...Washington old-timers can't remember a greater battle royal...
...It's down to the wire for the four TV executives still in the running to head the National Center for the Book...
...The entrenched Democrats refuse to give way to the eager new Republicans, until the new crew agrees to erect a plaque in Chicago commemorating the 1968 Democratic National Convention...
...The new Secretary of the Interior is determined to appoint a cowboy to chair the committee, and the Indians are having none of it...
...The answering machine there is obviously on the blink...
...As soon as it was reported that the new President suffers from hay fever every now and then, the directorship of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases became one of the Capital's most sought-after plums...
...Those designated have made their disappointment known to the President himself in a round-robin letter...
...Several settlements have already been put to the torch...
...For the past several days, your reporter has attempted to get through to the Automated Data and Telecommunications Service to find out who will be taking over that key federal assignment...
...But who knows...
...Unlike many of the other losers, Barson has maintained his equilibrium...
...They have refused to surrender their zip code directories to the new Republican replacements...
...No luck...
...Seems that the White House personnel director has attempted to stock it with old-time Reagan supporters who didn't make it into the sub-cabinet...
...The new commander of the seventh cavalry has spread the word from his Pentagon headquarters that these outrages are going to be punished...
...Well-placed sources report the following: Trepid Barson, old-time GOP wheel-horse from Nevada, has lost out in his attempt to become Executive Director of the Commission for the Review of the National Policy Toward Gambling...
...Well, the ASPCA is up on its hind legs over the administration's refusal to abolish the Detector Dog Training Center...
...Well, Minneapolis businesswoman Charlene Stickstin didn't do herself much good when she was heard to mutter "history is bunk" after leaving her interview for the post of chairman of the Advisory Council on Historical Preservation...
...Other journalists report nothing but busy signals...
...no calls have been returned...
...If these Republicans really mean what they say, they'll go buy one off the rack and not rely on us federal employees...
...Still no word on whether Bert Lance will come out of retirement to accept one of the Democratic slots on the Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries...
...Efforts to mediate the dispute resulted in the new administration's greatest faux pas, the appointment of a full-blooded Apache as conciliator...
...The old-line Democratic mailmen who found themselves displaced from these cushy assignments aren't about to start lugging mail back in the inner city...
...Watch this space...
...Wenton Darlie, a loyal Republican committeeman from South Dakota, was eager to snap up the top job there until he learned that smallpox had already been eradicated...
...They still haven't recovered from the shock over at the Bureau of Smallpox Eradication...
...The latest word is that the disagreement has been referred to the Federal Service Impasses Panel...
...Meanwhile, incoming Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger turned down Gordon Liddy's application to head the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice...
...The Democratic letter carriers, known for the distinctive green Gucci stripes which adorn their mail pouches, have been telling one and all that they'll be back on top in 1984...
...All four candidates are committed to the Center's abolition, and the Center is scheduled to self-destruct as soon as the Department of . Education is forced out of business...
...But our Washington correspondent has been keeping an eye out and an ear open...
...You pay your money, you take your chances," Barson shrugged to your reporter...
...It's a test of their true commitment," said one of the disgruntled letter carriers...
...Finally, if you've been wondering why there have been so many delays in your mail delivery these past four weeks, you'll have to check out the fracas over at the U.S...
...Friends say that Darlie was so angered at what he took to be a snub that he succumbed to an apoplectic stroke...
...He has already signed up more than 600 tiny time pills...
...Stickstin claims she was misquoted in the Washington Post's front-page story on the episode...
...If you watit to know what the change of administrations really means, check out the Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation Committee...
...But the fear is that Dr...
Vol. 14 • March 1981 • No. 3
