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...your story about J. Edgar Hoover, I am identified as an "outraged defender" of Mr. Hoover's. You quote me as having said that Hoover "had only one motive. That was to make the FBI the finest investigative agency in the world." To the best of my knowledge, I never made that statement, and if I did I was clearly wrong...
...Hoover's motives was to build "the finest investigative agency in the world," but certainly many of the things he did had to come from far less admirable instincts. Because this is so obvious, I saw little use in joining the chorus of self-righteous decriers of Hoover's actions before the Church committee. Instead, I have recommended that we never again place that much power in one man's hands, as inevitably the results will be the same or worse...
...finest compliments I ever got," says Sharp, "was when a lawyer was asked how it felt to appear before a woman judge, and he replied, 'I have not been conscious of appearing before a woman judge.' " Sharp, who has remained single, is wary of trying to balance marriage and a career. "The trouble comes when a woman tries to be too many things at one time: a wife, a mother, a career woman, a femme fatale. That's when the psychiatrist is called in at umpteen dollars an hour. A woman has got to draw up a blueprint...
...Deutsche Grammophon). In the finest piano album to result from the Ravel centenary, Argentina's Martha Argerich, 34, displays a mind that is as dexterous as her fingers...
...since World War I, when some of northern France's finest vineyards were turned into bloody battlefields, has the French champagne industry seen bigger trouble. Having grown steadily and sometimes spectacularly since the mid-1950s, sales of the French bubbly have been in a steep slide. Last year French vintners were horrified when champagne sales dropped 16% below the 1973 peak of 125 million bottles, to 105 million bottles. This year sales may fall below 100 million bottles for the first time since 1969. "We're not a product of primary necessity," says Jean-Michel Ducellier, head...