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...alone who the aggressors were or whether the battle need ever have occurred at all. When the President's commission on violence opened hearings in Washington last week, the nation's two top law officers, Attorney General Ramsey Clark and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, were firing from opposing sides...
Clark, of course, is technically Hoover's superior at the Justice Department. But after 44 years in charge of the FBI, Hoover is a law unto himself. For a man with experience in police work, he took an extraordinarily simplistic line about the Chicago cops' performance during the Democratic National Convention. "The police and the National Guard were faced with vicious attacking mobs who gave them no alternative but to use force to prevent these mobs from accomplishing their destructive purposes," Hoover told the commission...
...ultimate consumer might be surprised to learn that the company is based not in Utah but on San Francis co's California Street. He might also be surprised to know that Utah Construction & Mining helped build the Hoover and Bonneville dams and the Alcan Highway, and last year completed $1.4 billion worth of work on the ambitious new San Francisco Bay Area rapid-transit system. Utah's revenues of $1 13.3 million and earnings of $16,543,000 last year resulted from such diverse and far-flung sources as real estate sales on California's Monterey Peninsula...
...mile stretch (with 45 tunnels) of Western Pacific line through the Sierra Nevada and the Feather River Canyon. In the 1930s, Utah started its all-out expansion. It became one of Six Companies, Inc., a consortium that also included Henry Kaiser and Morrison-Knudsen Co., which bid jointly on Hoover, Bonneville and many another mammoth engineering project in the booming West. The Six Companies have long since separated, but Utah is still heavily involved in construction. It currently has a $102 million backlog of orders ranging from landfill work in San Francisco Bay to tunnel and powerhouse projects...
...Hoover's scare message is expected to give momentum to a congressional measure, now in conference, which would require universities to cut off federal aid to students who are disciplined for taking part in campus demonstrations. Similar demands for political purity may be fastened on to Defense Department grants which support scientific research...