Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet, Stearn
...real solace. Lyndon Johnson's new commission to study civil disorder was still getting organized, and its chairman, Illinois Governor Otto Kerner, doubted that it could even meet a deadline for an interim report next March. In closed session, the group heard a number of witnesses, including J. Edgar Hoover, who repeated previous conclusions to the effect that while outside agitators contribute to some riots, there was still no proof of large-scale conspiracy...
...days later, the same cast of characters took part in one of the most extraordinary Cabinet meetings in French history. Such eminent scholars as Novelist Andre Malraux, Law Professor Edgar Faure and Poetry Anthologist Georges Pompidou had to sit in solemn silence while the general delivered himself of his peculiarly Gallic version of Canadian history...
After all these years, he passes some sort of milestone every time he walks into the office, but last week was something special. Half a century had passed since John Edgar Hoover first reported for work at the Justice Department as a $1,200-a-year clerk. Now 72, and the only chief the FBI has ever had, Hoover marked the anniversary in characteristic fashion-working at his desk from 9 a.m. till past 6 p.m., and breaking only for a quiet lunch at the White House with L.B.J. and Attorney General Ramsey Clark...
Ford's thoughts coincided with those of California Industrialist Edgar F. Kaiser, who also sensed a rising demand among Brazilians for more and better cars. Kaiser, with a 38% interest in Willys, has been building autos in Brazil since 1953, but has gradually realized that despite a lucrative business-Willys built 62,809 cars in Brazil last year -he has neither the technology nor the capital to keep up with a changing market. As part of a $40 million deal, he agreed to sell out to Ford...