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...revolt within the FBI against any more political appointments. All but one of the FBI'S 59 field-office heads joined in a telegram to the President demanding that "qualified executives within the FBI" be considered for the top spot. Ruckelshaus, who does not want the permanent directorship, tried to calm the top FBI officials in a 20-minute meeting. But after he left, they met for two hours and still insisted that someone whom the White House could not control be named to head the bureau...
...humiliation was considerably soothed by his ascendancy to the directorship of England's Royal Opera at Covent Garden in 1961. Still something of a diamond in the rough, the Generalmusikdirektor of the Munich and Frankfurt operas had trouble adjusting to the British predilection for requesting rather than demanding. Recalls John Culshaw, producer of the Solti Ring cycle: "With such a bundle of energy who drives himself so hard, you either give him total loyalty or you can't stand him." Among those who could not stand him at first were the members of the chorus, outraged that...
However, one such clinic in Shreveport, La., survived for almost four years under the very able directorship of Dr. W.P. Butler. A letter written in 1920 from the Shreveport Commissioner of Public Safety to the Louisiana State Board of Health states...
...first as an executive assistant at HEW, later as an Assistant Attorney General under John Mitchell. Moreover, his subservience to the Nixon Administration is so complete that it is all but certain that if he is approved, any future Democratic Administration would replace him. That would turn the FBI directorship into the kind of political-patronage post that would seriously damage its reputation for impartial law enforcement. The politicization of the FBI is something that J. Edgar Hoover -to his lasting credit-never permitted...
...catalogue entry might go. In the seven years of his directorship, Thomas Hoving's image has described a remarkable parabola. He began with a lot: youth (at 35, the youngest director in the Met's history), vast enthusiasm, intelligence, a growing reputation as a medievalist and solid backing from the WASP establishment. He was, to resurrect a headline from his Central Park days, A HAPPENING CALLED HOVING, the epitome of New Frontier bounce, flair and pragmatic cheek. Today, he is besieged in the museum whose physical shape, and concomitant policies, he has irrevocably defined and changed...