Word: file
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...Post Office Department two years ago put a watch on the mail of an old Kennedy foe, New York Attorney Roy Cohn, then under federal indictment for perjury (he was later acquitted). A Cohn lawyer told the committee that in connection with that case he had subpoenaed the LIFE file on a 1963 story about Cohn. Somehow, in the midst of that file was a confidential memo written by LIFE'S then Washington bureau chief, reporting that he had received a call from Attorney General Kennedy, who offered to put him in touch with one Sam Baron, a disgruntled...
...people are at the bridge over the Alabama River; they have to walk double file. A group of state troopers, plus white people, plus Sheriff Clark and his posse, plus Al Lingo, head of the state highway patrol, are on the other side of the bridge...
Close to the White House. Born to a family of civil servants, Hoover first went to work for that "mammoth filing cabinet," the Library of Congress. From there he moved to the Justice Department, where he cleaned up its seamy, scandal-ridden investigative division and established "that monument to bureaucratic endeavor-a central fingerprint file." In the course of his career, Hoover has regularly exaggerated the FBI's accomplishments, writes Kraft. But why not? All federal bureaus, from the FCC to the Reclamation Bureau, do the same. While Hoover has a reputation for being his own boss...
Some individual union leaders are also corning under increasing attack from their own rank and file. Last year insurgents deposed the presidents of three unions-the International Longshoremen's Association, the American Federation of Teachers, and the State, County and Municipal Employees. Rebels also seriously challenged six other union chiefs, including the International Union of Electrical Workers' eccentric James B. Carey; critics within the union noted that, among his many other gestures that needlessly irritated management, Carey sent Monopoly sets to General Electric executives in jail for price fixing...
Every college has to have "its" sport. And at Yale that sport is swimming. On Saturday afternoons throughout the winter, Yale's Payne Whitney Gymansium takes on the air of a massive temple into which the faithful file past long corridors of swimming trophies to watch the water animals perform...