Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your cover story and a current historical bestseller, Barbara Tuchman's The Proud Tower, share a leitmotiv from Edgar Allan Poe's "The City in the Sea": While from a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down...
...Dallas, where firearm regulations are practically nonexistent (as throughout all of Texas), 72% of all homicides were committed with guns v. 25% in New York City, where the state's tough 55-year-old Sullivan Law requires police permits for the mere possession of handguns. Says J. Edgar Hoover: "Those who claim that the availability of firearms is not a factor in murders in this country are not facing reality...
Perhaps no station has done more journalistic pioneering than New Orleans' WDSU-TV. Owned by Edgar B. Stern Jr., a major stockholder in Sears, Roebuck, WDSU begins with a built-in advantage: it can afford to budget some $400,000 a year for TV news coverage. And most of WDSU's 18 reporters have had experience in other kinds of journalism-an unusual state of affairs in any TV news department. News Director John Corporon, 37, who served as U.P.I, bureau chief in New Orleans, has a wire-service fascination with fastbreaking stories plus a balancing lack...
Schools unable to maintain their own capital representatives can now turn instead to a growing number of Washington firms that call themselves "educational consultants." One such com pany was formed recently by Edgar B. Cale, former vice chancellor for the University of Pittsburgh. "We don't contemplate pressuring Congressmen at present," he says. "We'll take what's on the books and that's plenty." Still another educational consultant is Leo S. Tonkin Associates, which recently hired as associate director a young man with a promising future in Washington circles-Luci's fiance Pat Nugent...
...without jobs?" Russell said. "It is big business corporations that control good jobs." Five of the panels urged that the pending civil rights bill on juries and housing be broadened. Others proposed a federal program to upgrade local police forces. One group voted unanimously for an investigation of J. Edgar Hoover's administration...