Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about money has ballooned bad-check losses in the U.S. to an estimated $1 billion a year. But bum-check pushers may shortly find their livelihood threatened by automation. In Los Angeles, a pair of science-minded entrepreneurs are using a digital computer to blot out what J. Edgar Hoover calls "fountain-pen bandits...
...operator who somehow manages to be a popular fellow nonetheless. He plays softball with Pancho Gonzales and the sons of Bing Crosby. He is probably the only regular at the craps tables of Las Vegas who goes off in the daytime to water-ski on nearby Lake Mead above Hoover Dam, and his go-go dynamism stops dead when the Dodgers are playing in Chavez Ravine. He takes off for the ball park...
...entanglements which restrict FBI men in this field, and empowered to "prevent, as well as to investigate, violations of constitutional rights." Such a group, the Report fails to observe, would be more closely linked to Attorney General Kennedy's Justice Department than the FBI, which under J. Edgar Hoover's control has remained semi-autonomous. Thus, the Administration would assume a far less ambiguous legal approach toward the civil rights movement...
...this year's budget hearings in Washington, the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover said that the Communists are now most busy trying to infect the minds of American youth with such late-blooming Red publications as New Horizons for Youth, launched in New York two years ago, and Communist Viewpoint, a newsletter born last month that circulates modestly among U.S. colleges. Like the rest, they are pretty anemic-looking stuff...
...Line, a collection of essays on civil disobedience, Goodman scarcely mentions Communism as a cause of the cold war. By Freudian analysis, he traces the origins of the cold war to the pent-up emotions of Americans that must have aggressive outlets. After damning nearly everybody from J. Edgar Hoover to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt for continuing the cold war, Goodman announces his own cure for cold war tensions: "An occasional fist fight, a better orgasm, friendly games, a job of useful work, being moved by things that are beautiful, curious or wonderful...