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Died. Sanford Bates, 88, reform-minded penologist who presided over the massive expansion of the federal prison system during the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations; in Trenton, N.J. A lawyer, Bates was named head of Massachusetts' correctional institutions in 1919, and introduced such innovations as a merit pay system and partial self-government for inmates. When Congress set up the U.S. Bureau of Prisons in 1930, Bates was appointed its first director. He later created model, much-imitated parole systems for New York and New Jersey...
...California voters. Starting far ahead, he let Hubert Humphrey nearly overtake him in 1968, and suffered a setback in the 1970 congressional elections because of an unduly strident campaign. Not much more than a year ago it looked as if he might become the first incumbent President since Herbert Hoover to be turned out of office. But now, for the first time in his scar-studded career, he bestrides the American political arena like a colossus. By every sign, omen and pollster's tally sheet, Nixon and his running mate Spiro Agnew have it made. The President...
...thru the picture. Fantasing myself as the Alek but without "my brothers." Just "a little of the old ultra violence." I've decided Wallace would have the honor of-what would you call it? It seems I would have done better for myself to kill old G-man Hoover. In death he lays with Presidents. They never heard of Wallace in Russia or anyplace. Editors will say: "Wallace dead? Who cares." If something big in Nam flares up, it'll end up at the bottom of the first page. He won't get more than three minutes...
...question of guaranteed annual income, the differences may be in rhetoric and degree rather than in principle. In addition, Nixon seemed to be ignoring 1964, when Barry Goldwater proclaimed "a choice, not an echo." Perhaps more significant, the President was forgetting 1932, the year when F.D.R. defeated Herbert Hoover in one of the deep-sea changes of American life. Whether McGovern's program would affect the U.S. as deeply as the New Deal did is an open question. The issues of 1972 have not yet been clearly drawn. Only after McGovern has solidly staked out his positions will...
...After Hoover's death last spring, Acting Director L. Patrick Gray decided to abandon the men-only policy. Last week two women were accepted for the FBI's special-agent training program - Susan Lynn Roley, 25, a former Marine Corps lieutenant, and Joanne...