Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Revolution Against Authority." In a way, Chief Parker is too successful. He is probably the most respected law-enforcement officer in the U.S. after J. Edgar Hoover. His published views on law enforcement, Parker on Police, are required reading for lawmen all over the U.S. At home, the very fact that he has survived three city administrations−and helped them to survive−gives him enormous power and prestige. Moreover, unlike most cops who are content to tend their roses or go fishing in off hours, William Parker (few call him Bill) is a compulsive and all-too-articulate...
Layoffs & Cutbacks. Ford Motor Co. Ltd., Britain's second largest automaker, put 10,000 workers on a four-day week, starting this week. Reason: the credit restrictions imposed by Labor in June have cut home demand (exports are at record levels). Hoover Ltd., a major washing-machine maker, ordered 4,000 Welsh and Scottish workers onto a short week starting Sept. 6. The Transport Ministry postponed for six months about half of the $140 million in road building that was to have started shortly. Most telltale of all, unemployment leaped by 58,333−a startling...
...will take us many long strides" toward Franklin Roosevelt's dream of "a decent and dignified home" for every family. Johnson capped the week with a bipartisan signin' and speakin', this time approving a bill to create a national historical site in memory of Herbert Hoover at West Branch, Iowa, where Hoover was born and now lies buried. Johnson invited every big G.O.P. name he could think of, but the notice was short and most sent regrets. Unfazed, Johnson paid eloquent tribute to Hoover as a "big man," a "good man," and "above all a devoted...
...commingling geometry, Hebrew characters and dislocated figures in iconographic puzzles, were rejected as not naturalistic enough by the Moscow Art Theater. And so, having rejected all the isms of Paris, Chagall found himself rejected by Communism. In 1922, Chagall left Russia with $20, clad in khaki trousers provided by Hoover relief. Bella and his six-year-old daughter Ida followed. He never returned...
...those who like their Bond stirred and not unsettlingly shaken, ABC is aiming somewhere between 007 and 77 Sunset Strip. The F.B.I. will serve up ex-77 Sunset Stripper Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as an agent so gosh-darn clean cut that J. Edgar Hoover has grunted his first TV seal of approval...