Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...October, when his Los Angeles office came into possession of a copy of the affidavit. The Senator denounced the document as "a monstrous falsehood," demanded an investigation by Los Angeles police. They reported that they had no record of any such arrest. Neither did the FBI, said Director J. Edgar Hoover in a personal letter to Kuchel. Kuchel then demanded criminal proceedings, which resulted in last week's indictments...
These days, even in a magazine like Commentary, which is dedicated to intellectual surprise, it is surprising to find a kind word for J. Edgar Hoover, who has been enduring his worst press in 41 years as boss of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. But Washington Columnist Joseph Kraft rises to the defense with a thoughtfully reasoned brief. "To critics, Mr. Hoover is the advance guard of the police state," says Kraft in Commentary's February issue. "To boosters, he is the modern knight errant. For better or worse, he is made to cast a shadow larger than life...
Hardly a day goes by that far-traveling Samuel Bronfman, 74, the founder of the world's biggest distillery, does not telephone his son Edgar, 35. Last week, at his Chippendale desk in Manhattan's Seagram Building, Edgar took a typical call. Sam said he was feeling fine, but it was raining nastily in Clearwater, Fla., where he was on a visit. And by the way, the feisty father asked his son, shouldn't they market bottled cocktails under the Seagram label? Edgar smiled with satisfaction...
...significant victory for the younger Bronfman, who looks something like Joseph Cotten did 20 years ago. He has long wanted to put out mixed drinks in the bottle; but Bronfman the elder argued that it was difficult or impossible to make a bottled cocktail taste as it should. Now Edgar says that Seagram has solved the problem: it has discovered methods of using fresh, whole-fruit juices instead of extracts, and of preventing the vermouth in the mixes from losing flavor...
...Edgar and Jean Cahn, in their account of how not to wage war on poverty (based on the New Haven experience), carry the "war" analogy to its logical extreme and come up with some solid insights into deficiencies of the "para-military" approach to poverty. Their thesis is that war on poverty ignores a crucial "civilian perspective." The result of this defect is that programs which in theory are designed to increase self-reliance and independence, in fact tend to "enervate potential leadership," and to prevent criticism and retard innovation in favor of maintaining vested interests and the status...