Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...official prose is J. Edgar Hoover's, but most of the director's message in the most recent FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin is not so cheerful. He is warning "educators, public officals and law enforcement officers" not to ignore "the revolutionary terrorism invading college campuses...
...last week published its annual horror story, the Uniform Crime Reports, which naggingly showed a 16% leap in serious offenses. J. Edgar Hoover's statistics placed last year 7% ahead of 1966 in rapes, 9% in aggravated assaults, 11% in murders and 28% in robberies. Two out of every 100 Americans, said the FBI, fell prey to a major felony. This chilling statistic is misleading as an index for the nation as a whole, since most crime is concentrated in the limited demographic area of the city ghetto...
...take to the barricades again when their classes reconvene in November. Nonetheless, there is rising hope throughout France that relative peace may prevail in its chaotic university system. The optimism rests mainly on the promises and proficiency of Charles de Gaulle's agile new Minister of Education, Edgar Faure...
...side, which is already being redeveloped by the Government and private entrepreneurs. To keep the setback, Owings has had to deploy his considerable powers of suasion. When he learned that the FBI intended to build a new headquarters right out to the old sidewalk line, he called on J. Edgar Hoover, urged him to redesign the projected structure. After listening to Owings' impassioned plea, Hoover nodded agreement...
...Died. Edgar Monsanto Queeny, 70, president (1928-43) and board chairman (1943-60) of Monsanto Co., the nation's third biggest chemical maker after Du Pont and Union Carbide; of coronary thrombosis; in Ladue, Mo. Through judicious acquisitions and canny expansion into new products, Queeny raised Monsanto to the widely diversified giant that today chalks up annual sales of more than $1.6 billion...