Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ultimate consumer might be surprised to learn that the company is based not in Utah but on San Francis co's California Street. He might also be surprised to know that Utah Construction & Mining helped build the Hoover and Bonneville dams and the Alcan Highway, and last year completed $1.4 billion worth of work on the ambitious new San Francisco Bay Area rapid-transit system. Utah's revenues of $1 13.3 million and earnings of $16,543,000 last year resulted from such diverse and far-flung sources as real estate sales on California's Monterey Peninsula...
...official prose is J. Edgar Hoover's, but most of the director's message in the most recent FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin is not so cheerful. He is warning "educators, public officals and law enforcement officers" not to ignore "the revolutionary terrorism invading college campuses...
...Under the guise of academic freedom and freedom of speech," Hoover explains, students really are treacherously seeking "a confrontation with established authority," and even dare to try "to 'restructure' our society...
Academic freedom and freedom of speech have been making their appearance more and more often in the subordinate clauses of the rhetoric of 1968 ("Although our nation has always cherished the right of dissent, we cannot...") and unhappily Hoover's call to repression is not just the babble of one senile totem...
...Hoover's scare message is expected to give momentum to a congressional measure, now in conference, which would require universities to cut off federal aid to students who are disciplined for taking part in campus demonstrations. Similar demands for political purity may be fastened on to Defense Department grants which support scientific research...