Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mayer teases his reader in a subtler, more ambiguous way as well. Sandwiched between jibes at Yiddish, first love and Herbert Hoover is an apparently serious statement about American politics, values and mores. But the reader is never quite sure when Mayer crosses the line between humor and conviction. The angels in Heaven bustle about designing portable restrooms, and manna and nectar refreshment concessions for the up-coming gala bimillenium. ("We're expecting millions of tourists," Mary tells Brinkley.) The bumbling corruption of Soviet-American disarmament negotiators and the CIA's school for assassins are cleverly ridiculed, but the caricatures...
Articles based on some of Kaplan's documents are scheduled to appear in forthcoming issues of the Italian magazine Panorama. The Hoover Institution in Stanford, Calif., is trying to bring Kaplan and his cache...
Anderson, a Hoover Institute researcher and former political adviser to Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan: "The Carter plan represents massive Government intervention in the energy economy. It will lead to more shortages and higher prices, more inflation and a depressed economy...
...classic example of this came in the home half of the fifth. Tufts had the bases loaded with one out and was threatening to fell Harvard's 6-3 lead when the Crimson pulled out the Hoover and turned over a 6-4-3 twin killing to quell the rally...
...product of a U.S. Department of Justice investigation spurred by the revelations emerging from the Watergate hearings. The Justice Department investigators have uncovered evidence that illegal operations were conducted with the tacit approval if not at the direction of high level FBI officials, including former Bureau directors J. Edgar Hoover and L. Patrick Gray III. While Gray and others have disavowed participation in the illegal activities, their testimony is at odds with that of other FBI officials...