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...Hoover Institution...
...name. (Would Parkinson's law ever have been discovered if C. Northcote Parkinson had remained Cyril N. Parkinson?) More commonly, such changes suppress a plain name. (Could Bill Harriman have served Presidents as grandly as W. Averell Harriman did? Would the FBI have achieved the same renown under Jack Hoover as it did under J. Edgar Hoover...
...over greece. After an absence of nine years, the famous "zipper," true to its nickname, again began zipping around 1 Times Square, known also as the tower where the New Year countdown begins with the dropping of a giant apple. First lighted on Nov. 6, 1928, to report Herbert Hoover's presidential election, the zipper paraded the Hindenburg explosion, the end of World War II and other newsworthy events until its operator, the New York Times,pulled the plug in 1962. Resurrected in 1965 by Life and other sponsors, it flickered until 1977. Last week's comeback...
...Robinson "Hoover...
...University of Chicago sociologist whose insights into class differences within the black population have provoked considerable controversy; Robert Woodson, 48, head of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, which coordinates the work of community-based self-help groups; and Thomas Sowell, 55, an economist at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, who was the first of the new renegades...