Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...destined to swell still more next year -he is pressing the state for as much as $150 million in new aid, has opened a Washington office so that New York can get a larger slice of the federal pie. After the state legislature blocked his attempt to gather all the city's transportation functions under a unified leadership, Lindsay achieved part of his goal with an executive order. He now aims to regroup most of the city's 80-odd departments and bureaus into ten superagencies. Before bothering to obtain legislation, he has already created six such superdepartments...
During the past six months the Federal Bureau of Investigation has come under fire for its use of electronic devices--telephone wiretaps and hidden "bugs"--to gather evidence to fight crime and protect the national security. Last summer the Supreme Court nullified a tax evasion conviction on the grounds that evidence used was obtained illegally. Throughout the summer and early fall, there were strident cries for statutory limitations on such activities--with particular reference to those carried out by the F.B.I. And last weekend, F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover and his former boss, ex-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, accused...
Uncle Ho's. In Paris the exiles can gather in any one of some 200 Vietnamese chop-chop houses, ranging from a Communist bistro called Uncle Ho's, to a hangout called the Gathering Place of the Wise Men, which, like the others, reeks with the home flavor of nuoc mam, the fish sauce used on most Vietnamese dishes. More than half the men are married to French women, many hold French citizenship, few seem inclined to return to Asia. "They have their families here and are safe from the horrors of war," says a former Ambassador...
Furthermore, McCormack has offered some definite proposals for the next four years, something Volpe has not. Among these are a Department of Justice which would gather within one framework the state's far-flung legal offices and law enforcement agencies. He has also urged the complete implementation of the Willis-Harrington Report recommendations and the creation of a Department of Urban Affairs to coordinate federal, state, and local programs...
...quite know why they were getting together. Nostalgically recalling the good old days, Nasser remarked that the world was no longer so sharply split between East and West. "Our world is still governed by strife," he added, as if to suggest that this, at least, was reason to gather...