Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dutch Reformed Church, whose 3,000 members make it the largest church of that denomination in the U.S. He does not openly participate in party politics ("I don't believe that I should"), but he likes to read books of a political nature. Among his recent favorites: J. Edgar Hoover's Masters of Deceit and Victor Lasky's J.F.K.: the Man & the Myth. Regularly, every two weeks, he plays with a bridge club, also enjoys an occasional shrewd game of poker. "He is a percentage player, not a chance taker," says a man who has often watched...
...more untouchable than Eliot Ness, more famous than Dick Tracy, and more widely respected in his job than just about anybody. John Edgar Hoover, 69, has been head of the FBI so long that people forget he could have been replaced by any incoming Administration. Last week he completed 40 years in the post, and Lyndon Johnson weighed in with his own endorsement. Next New Year's Day the top lawman will reach the compulsory retirement age of 70. "I know you wouldn't think of breaking the law," said L.B.J. So to offset the requirement, the President...
...York (15,000 demonstrated against plans to integrate New York public schools), Homeowner's Groups, Detroit, Michigan, (obtained 44,000 signatures against an open-occupancy law), the California Real Estate Association (against housing law.) In addition, conservatives have increased accusations against alleged Communists in civil rights organizations, e.g. J. Edgar Hoover's remarks about the New York City stall-in. Finally, there would seem to be a direct relationship between the rise in the number of Negroes killed and the amount of Negro property destroyed and accelerated Negro demands. The net result is a growing white counter-revolution which...
...wound up with an automatic 20 of the 60 seats in Congress. (In Mexico's one-party "guided democracy," the ruling P.R.I, also guarantees some seats to its opposition-but up to 11%, not 33%.) "We allow freedom for all non-Communist political parties," says Edgar Ynsfran, 43, Stroessner's ambitious and influential Interior Minister. "It is subversion that we cannot tolerate...
...plays a cunning, cold-hearted bastard with wonderful confidence and relish. Standing near Bramhall are Lear's fool, Harry Smith, who seems too bitter, too sharp at first, but who persuades us finally; the Earl of Kent, Yann Weymouth, who acts with welcome restraint amid the general ranting; and Edgar, Richard Backus, who makes a fine fool and a noble Edgar. John Ross as Albany and Thomas Weisbuch as Cornwall both perform well, but they are in demanding company. John Lithgow plays an irregular Gloucester. His blinding scene is one of the play's best moments, but too frequently...