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When J. Edgar Hoover, former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, died in 1972, crime declined in the nation's capital for the first time in years. Now Cambridge's only breakfast table daily gets its chance to perform a public service; we expect that muggings and bank robberies and even double parking will continue as rampant as ever in the Square, but there will be none of the daily variety of Crime, not until January 5, that...
Working under Smith is a group of 18 that includes Alfred Bloomingdale, the Diners' Club founder; Joseph Coors, the Colorado brewer; W. Glenn Campbell, director of Stanford's conservative Hoover Institution; Holmes Tuttle, one of the biggest Ford dealers in California and long a close associate of the President-elect; Anne Armstrong, Gerald Ford's Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; Justin Dart of Dart & Kraft, Inc., a multinational food and housewares corporation; Nevada's Senator Paul Laxalt, Reagan's key man in Washington; and Edwin Meese, Reagan's closest assistant...
...give the Cabinet a bi-partisan aura. The leading candidates for Secretary of State, if Shultz does not get the job, are now William Simon, a former Secretary of the Treasury, and Alexander Haig, former Nixon chief of staff. Thomas Sowell, a black conservative economist at Stanford's Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, may enter the Cabinet as Secretary of Labor or Education...
Other conservatives clustered around the Hoover Institution and the American Enterprise Institute in Washington are expected to be tapped for posts at State, Defense and the National Security Council. Republicans argue that perhaps not since the days of Theodore Roosevelt have so many gifted intellectuals been available to a Republican Administration. They have a point...
...Republican leaders were elated by their gains. Said Michigan's Guy Vander Jagt, who as chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee was partly responsible for the G.O.P. House election strategy: "It's the most crushing rejection of a President and his party in Congress since Herbert Hoover. Democratic leaders who managed to survive had the bejesus scared out of them...