Word: hooverness
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...years as head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover stoutly - some said male chauvinistically - refused to allow women as special agents. Tracking down Dillingers and other enemies foreign and domestic was man's work, he believed. He continued the ban even in recent years when the FBI's Most Wanted List came to include women, among them Angela Davis and the Weatherman's Bernardine Dohrn...
...abortion and in favor of aid to parochial schools and relief of the property tax. He moved, however belatedly, to control inflation, and he may yet achieve a ceasefire in Viet Nam before Election Day. History too is on Nixon's side; no incumbent President since Herbert Hoover has lost a bid for a second term...
...post he will help develop policies and projects for the future of all the company's divisions, in several of which he has served. The elder son of TIME'S cofounder, Hank Luce was already a graduate of the wartime Navy, Yale, the staff of the first Hoover Commission and a police reporter's beat in Cleveland when he came to the magazine in 1951. He worked as a Washington correspondent and national affairs writer before he took on the job of supervising the planning and construction of our present headquarters, the Time-Life Building in Manhattan...
Gray is revising the agency's investigative priorities. His bureau's main target will be organized crime, he says, followed by domestic subversion, then drugs. Hoover's prime preoccupation was radicals...
...change in emphasis is the more remarkable since in many of his private views Gray is not that distant from Hoover. A former Navy submarine commander, the acting director, at 55, is a firm believer in military-style discipline and old-fashioned American values. He attends Mass every morning and has told friends that the U.S. is suffering sure signs of moral sickness-mainly because of drugs, draft resisters and the New Left...