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Lipset last night declined to confirm the report, but sources said that Lipset will become a research associate at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace...
Lipset said Stanford approached him earlier this year and offered him a joint appointment as a professor of social relations and political science at the university and as a research associate at Hoover...
...placed in an institution for orphans by his father) to be more popular than the President of the United States. At the height of his success and his salary, reporters pointed out to the Bambino that at $80,000 a year, he was making more than President Hoover ($75,000). "What the hell," Ruth said, "I had a better year than he did last year...
...kind of triumph. His sport lacks the com pulsive pursuit of hunting, the dizzying zest of mountain climbing. But it grants something else: a philosophy - an acceptance and ultimately a grudging admiration for unyielding nature. It is that philosophy that lured such beleaguered politicians as Franklin Roosevelt, Hoover, Eisenhower and Kennedy. It is that philosophy that prompted Henry David Thoreau to describe time itself as "the stream I go a-fishing...
...result of an FBI plan called COINTELPRO. Though the full scope of this plan is not known, a few things can be said about it with certainty. The acronym COINTELPRO stands for "Counter Intelligence Program." Its organizational function was outlined in a 1968 secret memorandum written by J. Edgar Hoover: "The purpose of this program is to expose, disrupt, and otherwise neutralize the activities of the various New Left organizations, their leadership, their adherents." The plan was eventually divided into three principal sections--Old Left, New Left and Black Nationalism. The Old Left G-Men were responsible for covering...