Word: edgar
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Then there is Kemper Boyd, a corrupt FBI agent from a once illustrious and then bankrupt Tennessee family ("My father went broke and killed himself. He willed me ninety-one dollars and the gun he did it with"). Recognizing an accomplished sneak when he sees one, Director J. Edgar Hoover persuades Kemper to tender a sham resignation from the agency--while retaining his salary--and to hire on with Bobby Kennedy's Senate investigative team as a spy. Hoover hates the Kennedys. But Kemper, who gets the job, takes to the brothers, especially Jack, in whom he recognizes...
Fidel Castro, long suspected of possible complicity in the assassination of President Kennedy, is apparently a conspiracy buff himself. Just seven months after the November, 1963 shooting in Dallas, according to a newly-declassified letter from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, the Cuban leader ran his own tests to determine whether it was possible for one man using a rifle with a telescopic sight to have killed the American president. An FBI informant told Hoover that Castro speculated that "it took about three people" to do the deed. Cuba has insisted that the CIA was behind the plot. ButTIME senior...
Nicandros could hardly have battled further because he faced opposition within his own corporate family. It would have come from the powerful Bronfmans--Edgar Bronfman Sr. and sons Edgar Jr. and Charles--who control the Seagrams liquor company and hold three seats on the board of Du Pont-and who, significantly, had not been informed of the deal earlier. As political contributors and officers of the World Jewish Congress, which vehemently opposes U.S. trade with Iran, the Bronfmans have voices that are heard in Washington. Edgar Bronfman Sr. used prearranged meetings with top lawmakers such as House Speaker Newt Gingrich...
...council also voted on Monday night to senda letter to Adams Realty Trust's general partners,Walter and Edgar Gulesarian, to express thecouncil's opposition to the demolition and to urgethem to explore other options for increasingavailable parking...
...baseball does. Having turned off millions of fans and dissed the President of the United States, baseball has lost the most famous athlete in the world. His declaration that he was through was not merely the retirement of a 32-year-old Double-A outfielder. It was one more Edgar Allan Poe story for the game. Vincent Price would be a perfect choice for the commissioner. First of all, he has had experience with this kind of horror. Second of all, he too is dead...