Word: hearded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...health reasons, Webster was asked by President Carter to become the third director in the FBI's 43 year history, and he accepted. Explaining why he would give up his judgeship for the bureau's top post, he said: "I'm an old Navyman. I heard the bosun's pipe and the words 'Now hear this...
...volumes of revealing, intensely personal diaries. His Letters to Milena and Letters to Felice, two women he loved, have already been printed, as well as the 1919 Letter to His Father. Letters to Friends, Family and Editors brings together his remaining correspondence. It is, presumably, the last to be heard from Kafka...
Carter handled the Marston queries poorly. At first he said he had known nothing about Marston until he heard that Attorney General Griffin Bell was going to replace him. Then, under sharp probing from reporters, Carter conceded that he had telephoned Bell and asked him to "expedite" Marston's ouster after Pennsylvania Democratic Congressman Joshua Eilberg requested him to "look into" the Philadelphia situation. It was an uncomfortable admission to say the least: although Carter denied being aware of it, Eilberg has been implicated in a Marston investigation into financial irregularities in the construction of a Philadelphia hospital. While...
...strength and coordination. At 73, Vladimir Horowitz seems to be just as brilliant as when he first played the U.S. exactly 50 years ago. Last week in New York, the famed Ukrainian-born virtuoso celebrated the anniversary of that debut with some of the most electrifying music-making ever heard in Carnegie Hall, a hall that has had its share of excitement over the years...
...Harvard. Karen Nussbaum and Ellen Cassedy, secretaries at the Education School, put out a newsletter in an effort to organize University clerical workers, but the response was discouraging and they gave up. Then at a Women's Action Project convention in Boston in the spring of 1972, they heard other women with similar complaints. Nussbaum and Cassedy quit their jobs and joined eight other Boston office workers to lay the foundations for 9to5, Boston's first and only organization for women office workers. From those ten people handing out their monthly newsletter at subway exits, 9to5 has grown into...