Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...post he will help develop policies and projects for the future of all the company's divisions, in several of which he has served. The elder son of TIME'S cofounder, Hank Luce was already a graduate of the wartime Navy, Yale, the staff of the first Hoover Commission and a police reporter's beat in Cleveland when he came to the magazine in 1951. He worked as a Washington correspondent and national affairs writer before he took on the job of supervising the planning and construction of our present headquarters, the Time-Life Building in Manhattan...
...convinced yet that wholesale change here is either necessary or desirable." So says L. Patrick Gray III after one month on the job as acting director of the FBI. Wholesale they may not be, but some changes have already been made in the post-Hoover era-largely for the better...
...weeding process of Hoover's longtime cronies in the bureau continues. Last week Joseph J. Casper, 53, assistant director in charge of training and a 31-year veteran, announced his early retirement; he is the fourth man to resign from the top FBI ranks since Hoover's death. Gray has also purposefully made himself visible and accessible, opening the FBI'S doors to the press and patching up relations with those law enforcement officials with whom the aging Hoover had developed feuds...
Gray is revising the agency's investigative priorities. His bureau's main target will be organized crime, he says, followed by domestic subversion, then drugs. Hoover's prime preoccupation was radicals...
...change in emphasis is the more remarkable since in many of his private views Gray is not that distant from Hoover. A former Navy submarine commander, the acting director, at 55, is a firm believer in military-style discipline and old-fashioned American values. He attends Mass every morning and has told friends that the U.S. is suffering sure signs of moral sickness-mainly because of drugs, draft resisters and the New Left...