Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found one afternoon lying on the ground with a fatal gunshot wound in her head. A coroner rules that she has committed suicide, and she is buried in the Staunton Hill graveyard, beneath a headstone that bears the Greek words for Little Flower. Her husband moves to Hoover, Ala., works as a stockbroker, and then returns to Athens in April...
...indictments, which were handed up more than a month ago, became public only last week, after a reporter came across them in the files of the Charlotte County courthouse. The embezzlement indictment was based on two searches conducted by officials in Jefferson County, Ala. Last May, sheriffs raided the Hoover apartment in which Michaelides had lived, locating thousands of dollars' worth of Bruce family silver. Then in September they went to a Birmingham warehouse and seized valuable paintings, rare books, furniture and antiques that were being crated for shipment to Michaelides in Athens...
Kelly cited recent attacks on FBI informants, and the reduction of domestic security cases from 100,000 cases under J. Edgar Hoover's directorship to a present 200 cases as other examples of the FBI's weekend investigative powers...
Nearly all early TIME covers featured a single human subject, but in recent years the magazine's editors, feeling a growing need to highlight issues as well, have picked more "topic" covers. Editorial perceptions of the importance of the presidency have also changed. Herbert Hoover rated only four TIME covers, none of them during his one term as President. But in a 2½-year term, Gerald Ford appeared 19 times. The unchallenged winner of the cover sweepstakes: Richard Nixon, who appeared 53 times in a 23-year-span...
...constant questions from the press. Presidents generally enjoy the rituals of office?otherwise they wouldn't be Presidents?but there also come times when they yearn to escape. Calvin Coolidge used to flee to his father's farm in Vermont to enjoy the tranquillity of the haying season. Herbert Hoover cast flies into Virginia's Rapidan River. Harry Truman swam off the beach at Key West, and Dwight Eisenhower drove golf balls through pine-edged fairways in Colorado...