Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, the General is something of a Washington institution. He has been associated with the Selective Service System since its infancy in 1936. In fact, he was promoted to brigadier general in 1940 for his work in planning the system. He is the modern system's first and only director...
...Skinner, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, says the new series of programmed-instruction books he has developed will teach children how to write faster by giving them an "instant correction" as they learn. With present teaching methods, students must wait for a teacher's corrections to see where they have made mistakes. Skinner's invisible ink system will solve this problem by giving the student an "immediate report" on his progress, Skinner says...
...annual report to the Attorney General, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover last week charged that the U.S. Communist Party was "deeply involved" in the Pentagon march and earlier antiwar rallies, and "can look back on 1967 with a degree of satisfaction...
...floor and averaged 25.3 points a game; against previously unbeaten Bradley (whom U.C.L.A. trounced 109-73), Lew blocked eleven shots in the space of 24 min. For a supporting cast, there is Guard Lucius Allen (15-point average), Forward Mike Lynn (13 points), Forward Lynn Shackelford (12 points), Forward Edgar Lacey (12 points) and Guard Mike Warren (12 points...
...face that even comes close to mine is Margaret Rutherford. That's my idol." Cheetah also uncovered the "first great mass producer of LSD," a University of Virginia drop-out named Augustus Owsley Stanley III. Operating in a way that might have made a financial success of Edgar Allan Poe, Owsley married a sensuous U.C.L.A. chemistry major and went into acid production in a laboratory near the Berkeley campus. He has turned out an estimated ten million pills, worth between $2 and $5 apiece...