Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cast of characters begins in 1923 with Charlie Chaplin and Warren G. Harding, and marches on in these four issues through years in which the figures on center stage range from Herbert Hoover to Booth Tarkington to Clara Bow, from Joe Louis to Adolf Hitler to Virginia Woolf, from Douglas MacArthur to Joe McCarthy to George Orwell. Each issue becomes a history of its year, not only tracing the overriding central themes - the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, World War II, the Korean War - but also providing vignettes that help bring people alive...
...solace. Lyndon Johnson's new commission to study civil disorder was still getting organized, and its chairman, Illinois Governor Otto Kerner, doubted that it could even meet a deadline for an interim report next March. In closed session, the group heard a number of witnesses, including J. Edgar Hoover, who repeated previous conclusions to the effect that while outside agitators contribute to some riots, there was still no proof of large-scale conspiracy...
After all these years, he passes some sort of milestone every time he walks into the office, but last week was something special. Half a century had passed since John Edgar Hoover first reported for work at the Justice Department as a $1,200-a-year clerk. Now 72, and the only chief the FBI has ever had, Hoover marked the anniversary in characteristic fashion-working at his desk from 9 a.m. till past 6 p.m., and breaking only for a quiet lunch at the White House with L.B.J. and Attorney General Ramsey Clark...
Under the new rules, there is unlikely to be any reprise of the kind of quarrel that recently titillated the nation. Last December, J. Edgar Hoover said that Senator Robert F. Kennedy had been informed of all bugging endeavors while he was Attorney General, and Kennedy retorted that the FBI director had failed to tell him about a number of cases. Now Clark has served notice that he wants to know about all bugging, in advance...
...have suffered. Three major Belgian manufacturers have discontinued refrigerator production. General Motors (France) may soon stop making them too, and Whirlpool Corp., after only four years of European operation, has sold plant and Pontiac brand name to French companies. British manufacturers have decided to do as the Romans do: Hoover's English subsidiary markets Zanussi-made refrigerators under a Hoover label, and British Hotpoint lets Zoppas make its washers...