Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some 75 U.S. colleges, appeared with Operation Abolition at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn, and the University of Connecticut at Storrs. As usual, well-organized campus liberals picketed the showing, jammed the hall to heckle, boo, fire loaded questions at the narrator. Praised by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, the National Review, and a number of conservative Baptist groups, Operation Abolition has come in for searching criticism by the Jesuit weekly America, the Protestant Christian Century, Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike. After making its own study of the events, the National Council of Churches urged Protestant ministers "not to exhibit...
...college conservatives with a membership of 21,000, scattered over 115 campuses. Awards for activity in the conservative cause were handed out to an array of conservative celebrities, ranging from Editor William F. Buckley Jr. (National Review) to Wisconsin Industrialist Herbert Kohler (of Kohler). When a speaker mentioned Herbert Hoover's name, the audience roared; Ike's name got polite applause mixed with boos; Harry Truman, silence. But the lion of the evening-as he invariably is whenever conservatives gather-was Arizona's handsome, articulate junior Senator, Barry Goldwater...
...upheld a different age. They called themselves ng Americans for Freedom," their posters honored Senator y Goldwater, who would key- their meeting. Their ideology with in a some kind of God, in al rights, and in classical ecocs, combined with nationalist ments -- is familiar indeed: egacy of Jefferson, of Hoover, aft. . . and a bit of McCarthy. The generally thinks of their as "conservative," yet in a the Young Americans For dom are radicals. For they ad, in effect, a fundamental re-ruction of present institutions, ing them into accord with cer- philosophical notions. Manhat- Center was not a wholly inapriate...
...buying up obsolete and overstocked goods at a fraction (5-7%) of cost. There is plenty to go around-and not just leftovers from the last war. The Government alone last year unloaded $2.1 billion worth of "usable property." Under a house-cleaning policy recommended in 1955 by the Hoover Commission, it plans to scrap even more in the years to come. The supply seems inexhaustible; the military services often buy too much or find a product obsolete, or simply clean house of products that deteriorate in storage. By combining patience, fortitude and ingenuity, the 15 major dealers turn...
Died. Stanley Hoflund High, 65, a senior editor of the Reader's Digest and former editor of the Christian Herald, who switched from Hoover to become a New Deal brain-truster, founded the Good Neighbor League in 1936, was disowned by F.D.R. a year later for writing a magazine article revealing policy differences within the White House, and thereafter enlisted his skill as a publicist in the campaigns of Republican Candidates Willkie, Dewey and Eisenhower; of pulmonary complications following heart trouble; in New York City...