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Schizophrenia. The Agriculture Department defies tight administration. A report of the Hoover Commission on government reorganization called it "a loose confederation of independent agencies." The department's two main buildings in Washington contain a total of 4,844 rooms, eight miles of corridors. While Benson was Secretary, a counterfeiters' nest, complete with press and plates for printing bogus money, was discovered in one of the department's rooms. A sort of schizophrenia pervades the whole Agriculture Department atmosphere. Much of the department's funds and energies goes into trying to cope with overproduction-but agriculture also...
Sullivan said that the FBI does not resent criticism and does not "persecute men who advocate the same point of view as Communists for good reasons." He emphasized FBI Director Hoover's tolerance and "faith in our system...
...encyclopedia tells us that Lake Mead, behind Hoover Dam, is the largest man-made lake in the world, but we know perfectly well that when we trudge to Humanities 119 tomorrow morning, we will have to ford a much more forbidding body of water--the Abraham Lincoln Square Lake, which forms at the intersection of Cambridge Street and Broadway whenever Cambridge is visited by a heavy snow. This inland sea (one of several in the area: the Freedom Square Ice Floe is almost as impressive) is every bit as man-made as the one in Arizona-Nevada, for it results...
...Krock of course knows, Ike blamed many of his troubles on Truman policies, and defended his nonaction in certain foreign situations in the name of peace. Truman, for his part, blamed many of his troubles on poor old Herbert Hoover...
...Lama. Some of the signers send more than their autograph: John F. Kennedy enclosed an autographed picture with one of the two covers he signed; Abdul Karim Kassem (whose signature is a collector's item now), sent a copy of a speech he had just made; J. Edgar Hoover added some FBI pamphlets, and Soviet Defense Minister Malinovsky scribbled some propaganda right on his face: "We struggle for peace all over the world...