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...first packet of documents released after the Media, Pa., raid included a memo from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover which urged "immediate" and "discreet" investigations of black student groups, terming them "a definite threat to the nation's stability and security...
...Peace Clerks. There have been increasing suggestions that, at age 76, Hoover should resign. He has been criticized for making the FBI too much a lengthened shadow of his own philosophy. Though the critics aim chiefly at Hoover, the FBI's image suffers as well. It was discovered that Hoover keeps a fleet of armored limousines around the country that outnumbers the presidential limousines. Documents stolen by radical activists from the Media, Pa., FBI office outlined the agency's use of undercover informers; one memorandum encouraged local agents to exacerbate "the paranoia endemic in [New Left] circles that...
Blood. Throughout the latest round of criticism, Hoover has kept uncharacteristically quiet, apparently because Justice Department officials are worried that further intemperate remarks from the director might irreparably damage his cause. But even if Boggs' charges turn out to be groundless, Hoover's critics, scenting blood, are likely to continue to press for his resignation...
...reproduce himself, in the same way, creating thousands of virtually identical twins from a test tube full of cells carried through gestation by donor mothers or hatched in an artificial womb. Thus, the future could offer such phenomena as a police force cloned from the cells of J. Edgar Hoover, an invincible basketball team cloned from Lew Alcindor, or perhaps the colonization of the moon by astronauts cloned from a genetically sound specimen chosen by NASA officials. Using the same technique, a woman could even have a child cloned from one of her own cells. The child would inherit...
...distinction seems elusive in Screw. The writing style is often prosaic and juvenile, and the four-letter argot is flung against a wide variety of institutions and individuals-among them the New York Times (which once unwittingly carried an ad for Screw), the TV networks, J. Edgar Hoover, Billy Graham and Richard Nixon. On the tamer side, there have been interviews with Joe Namath and Timothy Leary and an in-bed session with John Lennon and Yoko...