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...INVITED You have to be a man, and officially you have to be a member of the Bohemian Club or a guest of one. Past members have included Mark Twain, Jack London, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Herbert Hoover and Earl Warren...
...over an hour of enjoyable musiccovering rainbow of topics, there is just notenough space. From love songs ("Who Would'veThought") to pleading peace among races andstereotypes, from questioning American values toattacking international social problems("Warsaw"), every subject and approach are worthclose attention. The familiar personal stories ofaddiction and relationships ("Hoover Street") areeasily followed by abstract digs ("Cash, Cultureand Violence") and thoughts on global resolve...
INACTION HERO It's not unusual to see likenesses of actors and athletes in toy stores, but it is unusual to see one of Herbert Hoover. And yet, thanks to the Formative International Co. of Kowloon, Hong Kong, the 31st President is now a doll, one of four in its Leaders of the World series. The others: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and James Madison. Our doll's marked-down price...
...Edgar Hoover's FBI put together a dossier on Chaplin that reached almost 2,000 pages. Wrongly identifying him as "Israel Thonstein," a Jew passing for a gentile, the FBI found no evidence that he had ever belonged to the Communist Party or engaged in treasonous activity. In 1952, however, two days after Chaplin sailed for England to promote Limelight, Attorney General James McGranery revoked his re-entry permit. Loathing the witch-hunts and "moral pomposity" of the cold war U.S., and believing he had "lost the affections" of the American public, Chaplin settled with Oona and their family...
Fiorina is careful to say it was not a salaryincrease which made him switch coasts. But atStanford, he will work in the Hoover Institute onWar, Revolution and Peace--cutting his teachingload in half and devoting his attention to aprestigious research center...