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After all these years, he passes some sort of milestone every time he walks into the office, but last week was something special. Half a century had passed since John Edgar Hoover first reported for work at the Justice Department as a $1,200-a-year clerk. Now 72, and the only chief the FBI has ever had, Hoover marked the anniversary in characteristic fashion-working at his desk from 9 a.m. till past 6 p.m., and breaking only for a quiet lunch at the White House with L.B.J. and Attorney General Ramsey Clark...
Under the new rules, there is unlikely to be any reprise of the kind of quarrel that recently titillated the nation. Last December, J. Edgar Hoover said that Senator Robert F. Kennedy had been informed of all bugging endeavors while he was Attorney General, and Kennedy retorted that the FBI director had failed to tell him about a number of cases. Now Clark has served notice that he wants to know about all bugging, in advance...
ROGER A. FREEMAN The Hoover Institution Stanford University Stanford, Calif...
...have suffered. Three major Belgian manufacturers have discontinued refrigerator production. General Motors (France) may soon stop making them too, and Whirlpool Corp., after only four years of European operation, has sold plant and Pontiac brand name to French companies. British manufacturers have decided to do as the Romans do: Hoover's English subsidiary markets Zanussi-made refrigerators under a Hoover label, and British Hotpoint lets Zoppas make its washers...
...acclamation, the delegates chose Dr. Dwight Locke Wilbur, 63, a San Francisco gastroenterologist, as the organization's president-elect to take office next June. He is one of two doctor sons of the late Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, longtime president of Stanford University, Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Interior, and A.M.A. president in 1923-24. Wilbur will be the first president in the A.M.A.'s 120-year history whose father also served in the office...