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...served under Arnheiter unhesitatingly sketched the picture of a self-possessed, unstable commander. And while Arnheiter insisted that he was the victim of a mutiny that the Navy, realizing its own mistake, was trying to cover up, he refused to authorize Sheehan to view his Navy dossier which include routine condition reports on him by senior officers...
...kitchenette so that she could cook Beverly's dinner before each performance. Two years later, after seven unsuccessful auditions, Beverly finally joined the New York City Opera, beginning the stint as a highly regarded utility singer that eventually led to her emergence in 1966. Conspicuously missing from the Sills dossier, then as now, was the name of the Metropolitan Opera. "I happened in a different way from Caruso, or Price, or any of the others," says Beverly. "I made it without the Met. I am a revolutionary...
...delivered by J. Edgar Hoover. In 1964, just before King left for Oslo to accept the Nobel, he met with Hoover. Williams says, "What really transpired may never be known," but he assumes that it was during this meeting that King was informed that the FBI had compiled a dossier of tapes and pictures on King. The dossier included no evidence of any communist infiltration of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference or control of King, the suspicion of which had prompted Robert F. Kennedy, then the Attorney General, to allow Hoover to conduct King's surveillance; but it did contain...
...individual's background. Finance companies are acceptable; lawyers looking for ammunition in a divorce case are not. The FBI, the Internal Revenue Service and other Government agencies, which had easy access to data banks, must now have a court order to peek at an individual's dossier (except for checks on prospective employees). Credit-bureau officials who knowingly supply data to unauthorized clients risk a year in jail and a $5,000 fine. Says Senator William Proxmire, Wisconsin Democrat, who husbanded the bill through Congress: "At some point the individual's right to privacy must take precedence...
...dossier contains no information on illegal or criminal activity by the plaintiffs, but only information on lawful political activities...