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Died. Harvey Slocum, 75. tough-talking U.S. engineer who bossed the construction of India's giant (740 ft. high) and all-but-completed Bhakra Dam, a self-educated ex-laborer who helped build Hoover and Grand Coulee dams and whose overriding ego-he called himself "the best damn dam builder in the world" -was matched only by his professional skill; of a heart attack; in Nangal, India...
...Herbert Hoover took his papers to Stanford University, his alma mater; Franklin D. Roosevelt's collection is at Hyde Park, N.Y., his former home; the Harry S. Truman Library is in Independence, Mo.; and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library was recently completed in Abilene, Kans...
...leaders are responsible for their failures only in the governing sector and cannot be held responsible for the failure of a nation as a whole ... In 1930 and 1931 we blamed all the evils that this country was then suffering, from the drought to the World Depression, on Herbert Hoover. If we had continued to hold those beliefs, we would never have learned anything from that experience. We would have dismissed it as being a question of leadership, and would have done nothing to prevent such an experience from happening again . . . Democracy and capitalism are institutions which are geared...
Realistically, Bloom concedes that he has already cornered about as much of the British washer market as he is apt to get. ("The two leaders-British Hoover and Hotpoint-have so much capital behind them that we couldn't move much farther.") In his new heater specialty, however, he faces virtually no effective competition. And some time in the future he plans to bring out a $118 dishwasher. "But the British aren't ready for this yet," he cautions. "It's too modern...
...schoolteacher was John Adams, who became the U.S.'s first Vice President, its second President, and the patriarch of a remarkable clan of statesmen and historians that ranged from his son, John Quincy Adams the sixth President, to Charles Francis Adams,* Secretary of the Navy under President Hoover. In his diary, an autobiography and letters by the hundreds, John Adams chronicled his career, set the firm pattern for his descendants of making history with one hand and writing about it with the other. Down through the generations, the members of the family faithfully sent their own papers...