Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Agriculture Minister, was scholarly Edgar Faure, 57, who as Radical Socialist Premier attended the Big Four summit at Geneva in 1955 and is a supporter of the Common Market. One of the few politicians of the Fourth Republic to gain the inner circle with De Gaulle, Faure was the emissary whose mission to Peking in 1963 was followed shortly afterwards by French recognition of Red China. His most important task will be to promote Common Market farm negotiations, and his appointment was clearly designed to placate the massive agricultural vote alienated in December by De Gaulle's hostility...
...goodness, Mr. McCone!" tutted a White House guard next day. "What'll they do next-break into Edgar Hoover's house?" It was nearly that bad. While former Central Intelligence Agency Director John McCone waltzed around with his wife Ti at Washington's National Symphony Ball, somebody cracked the Shoreham Hotel's defenses upstairs, broke into the McCones' suite and seriously sabotaged Ti's jewel collection. More than $18,000 in diamonds and pearls and other baubles were gone when the ball was over, and Edgar Hoover's boys immediately jumped...
...Edgar Hoover, who stands like the Rock of Gibraltar in advocating respect for established...
...Walter Bagehot: "When a historian withholds important facts likely to influence the judgment of his readers, he commits a fraud." (But Schlesinger himself ignored that injunction when, according to a friend, he decided to omit a similar account of how Kennedy had been planning to dump FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover...
Despite its amiable air, this thriller could do with a few less supposes, a few more surprises. Of course, J. Edgar Hoover's man Jones has an allergy to felines. He sneezes a lot as D.C. leads everyone a hairy chase over fences, under bushes, and through one hilarious mixup at 'a drive-in movie, cleverly avoiding the crooks' hideout until the very last reel. Meanwhile, eccentric comedy bits are supplied by Roddy McDowall, Ed Wynn, Elsa Lanchester and gravel-throated Iris Adrian...