Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your cartoon with "Hoover's Home Improvements" [Jan. 23] made me realize why J. Edgar Hoover had FBI men do his repair work. Since bugs or bombs could have easily been planted by repairmen, wasn't it safer and more economical for loyal employees to do the work? An alternative would have been to hire outside help and assign a loyal agent to watch each repairman...
...find King a revelation. The struggles of Montgomery and Birmingham, of Selma and Chicago are all re-enacted with corrosive force. So, too, are the many efforts to block King's progress, whether by thugs or Southern sheriffs or J. Edgar Hoover. Against this tumultuous background, King's courageous devotion to nonviolent activism assumes appropriately heroic proportions...
...well he can-with limited administrative experience-run an agency with 19,000 employees, a $500 million annual budget and a lot of problems. Dominated by cliques and thoroughly demoralized, the FBI has suffered one severe blow after another to its public image since the death of J. Edgar Hoover...
There were damaging revelations of Hoover's petty corruption and personal wars against political dissenters and black leaders. L. Patrick Gray, the acting director, politicized the agency by bending to pressure from the Nixon White House to impede the Watergate investigations. Outgoing Director Clarence Kelley, who is due to retire by Feb. 15, has been unable to wrest full control from the remaining members of Hoover's inner circle. Within the past five years, moreover, it has been disclosed that a number of the FBI's 8,400 agents have been involved in illegal entries and mail...
...score, bases loaded, two out, ninth inning, full count. Let's see what you got," barks the Red Sox' greatest slugger, Ted Williams. Cincinnati Reds Star Hurler Tom Seaver tosses a pitch, and Terrible Ted trots calmly to first base. The scene at Williams' alma mater, Hoover High School in San Diego, will air in the spring on the syndicated TV show Greatest Sports Legends, to which Seaver is playing host this year. At lunch in Manhattan to pitch the show, Williams, 59, who in his heyday earned $125,000 a year, defended today's well...