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In 1919 Martin Luther King was not yet born, but even then there were enough outspoken Negroes to keep Mr. Hoover busy. That year he assumed directorship of the General Intelligence Division of the Justice Department and promptly reported that "the reds have done a vast amount of evil damage...
Just before midnight, word of the latest Communist move was flashed to duty officers at U.S. headquarters in West Berlin. Not satisfied with damming up the flow of refugees from East Berlin, the Reds now blandly announced restrictions on Westerners who wanted to enter the eastern half of the city...
On one calamitous day early in 1953, a howling northwester teamed with a wild spring tide. The resulting floods were the most disastrous to afflict The Netherlands in five centuries. Hardest hit were 1,300 square miles of Rhine and Meuse delta lands in The Netherlands' southwest, where tidal...
Died. Harry Falconer McLean, 78, boisterous, eccentric Canadian construction king, the fabled "Mr. X" who once dumped $5,000 in silver and small bills out of his hotel window, handed out $100 bills to soldiers and chambermaids, $1,000 and $2,000 checks to bellhops and cabbies because "I like...
Clues under the Mud. Every year when the weather permitted, Kostrzewski and his assistant Rajewski assembled teams to probe deeper into the mud for the secrets of Biskupin. Damming the site and pumping it dry, the diggers found that the slanting logs were the outer fringe of fortifications; just inside...