Word: easterly
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With Boggs promising that the results of his personal investigation would be forthcoming, Congress left for the Easter recess with the FBI in the biggest turmoil since Hoover became the director of the bureau 47 years ago. Under Hoover, the FBI long ago evolved into an untouchable symbol of righteousness to most citizens. The chairman of a House Appropriations Subcommittee often bragged that he never cut Hoover's budget requests. Films, television series and books chronicled the bureau's crime-fighting exploits. The bureau's image has begun to fuzz of late, thanks to Hoover...
...major performance by going over the score in solitude. Not Austria's white-maned Conductor Herbert von Karajan, 63-flyer, skier, yachtsman and fast-car buff. A few hours before the première of a Karajan-produced, Karajan-directed, Karajan-conducted Fidelio at Salzburg's Easter festival, he climbed into his souped-up Ford GT 40 and took on a twisting mountain road at speed. When he whined around a curve to face a juggernaut diesel on the wrong side of the road, Karajan took evasive action, turned the Ford over twice and totaled it. Unscathed...
Just before Easter, the Massachusetts chapter of Americans for Democratic Action announced that they were allying with the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice (PCPJ), joining such established groups as Mass Pax, the American Friends Service Committee, and the Non-violent Direct Action Group in the area-wide antiwar coalition...
...Jewish Easter. The Rev. Daniel Fuchs, general secretary of the American Board of Missions to the Jews (and himself the son of converts from Judaism), was puzzled by the uproar. When the show was broadcast last season in Los Angeles, Fuchs says, the board received 5,400 requests for literature, more than half of them from "Jewish names." At least six of the inquirers, he says, were converted to Christianity, and only about 20 letters were critical...
Negotiating peace between Israel and Egypt is an extra assignment for Swedish Diplomat Gunnar Jarring; his regular job is serving as Swedish Ambassador to Moscow. Last week, with the Middle East talks deadlocked again, Jarring flew from New York to the Soviet capital to spend Easter with his family and catch up on embassy work. Were the talks really that stalemated? Well, Jarring confided to U.N. friends before he left, the trip was partially a bit of "constructive inaction" designed to prod the protagonists...