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...Banuelos' bland assertion that she had been the victim of a political conspiracy seemed preposterous. But TIME's Eleanor Hoover learned that the choice of Mrs. Banuelos' plant was no accident. The tipster, Hoover reports, was Harry Bernstein, the respected labor editor of the Los Angeles Times and a recent crusader against illegal aliens. The day before the raid, Bernstein phoned Rosenberg and told him of the aliens at the Banuelos plant. Bernstein did not tell Rosenberg who the president of the company was, or where he himself had received his information. Gratefully, Rosenberg invited Bernstein along...
...Since PBS and its producers get much of their financing from the Federal Government, and since this funding is not insulated from querulous annual scrutiny, the network quakes at the least cavil from the Administration or Congress. Last week, after a complaining letter from J. Edgar Hoover, PBS timorously ordered the deletion of a Dream Machine segment that accused the FBI of hiring operatives to foment bombing in order to entrap left-wing coconspirators. The material was not daringly muckraking in that both NBC and the New York Times had months earlier published interviews with...
Millhouse touches on everything from the campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas to all six crises, and includes some unfamiliar footage like J. Edgar Hoover making Nixon an honorary FBI agent. Subtitled a "white comedy," the film is hardly likely to win praise for fighting fair. But at its best, Millhouse has the impact of a David Levine caricature...
Kingman Brewster, President of Yale University, described last year's campus mood as one of "eerie tranquillity." FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's annual report said that the number of campus demonstrations, logged chiefly from press reports, was down two thirds from the year before. Scores of other commentators, including TIME, concluded that at the very least the campus uproar that had culminated in the protests after the Kent and Jackson State shootings had given way to a new calm. Last week a report by the American Council on Education put that view up against the wall...
With KDKA setting an example, Secretary of Commerce Hoover was deluged by requests for broadcast licenses; what those licenses warranted was not yet considered. Hoover's responses effectively favored the companies able to afford powerful facilities. Stations owned by AT & T and RCA nudged smaller groups out of competition...