Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gold Coast is to the Gold Coast Valeteria, so the Harvard prank of yesterday is to the prank of today. The finely wrought practical joke of the past had the excitement of a shaving cream fight, the sophisticated delicacy of a neurosurgical operation, the cold reality of J. Edgar Hoover breathing down its neck, and usually a large dose of University Hall. The only remaining tradition in the hoax-and-dagger line is the stealing of the Lampoon lbis from its perch atop the Lampoon building...
...when a young teamster named Warren Bechtel hitched up a couple of mules and went into the "earthmoving" business in Oklahoma's Indian Territory. His knockabout enterprise prospered, and by the time of his death in 1933, "Dad" Bechtel was head of the combine building the Hoover Dam, the biggest construction project of its day. It was his son, Stephen Bechtel, who expanded the business into a worldwide engineering and construction organization that now employs some 8,500 technicians and engineers...
...House appropriations subcommittee, released yesterday, demonstrates an incredible lack of familiarity with students groups and their goals. He testified that SDS is "anarchistic," "subversive," and "infiltrated by Communist party members." He described its purpose of movement to be "an almost passionate desire to destroy, to annihilate, to tear down." Hoover apparently equates reform with anarchy...
...more dangerous are the political, ideological values his remarks imply. While there may be justification for viewing the tactics of the Revolutionary Action Movement and other militant groups as threatening, there is no conceivable justification for his calling SDS ideology "anti-American prattle." Hoover's statement was made before President Johnson announced a reversal in Vietnam policy, and perhaps Hoover would now be more reductant to equate opposition to the war with sedition. Nevertheless, his personal judgements on what opinions are "safe" for the country constitute a threat to freedom of thought and political opinion...
...Hoover commands more cooperation from Congressional committees than does any other man with the possible exception of General Hershey. And as head of a 16,000-man, two-hundred million dollar organization. Hoover has the kind of semi-autonomy that makes his political stands particularly dangerous. It is the responsibility of the next President of the United States to remove him from office, and it is the responsibility of University administrators now to clarify the nature of maligned political organizations...