Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sheds a revealing new light on King's human side and on the vicious secret pressures he faced from the FBI. The complex and convincing portrait drawn by David Garrow, associate professor of political science at New York's City College, describes how the bureau under J. Edgar Hoover tried to blackmail and intimidate King with tapes of his sexual encounters and how it attempted to discredit him by spreading reports about his love life after he refused to break off his friendship with a suspected Communist agent...
Sepehr Zabih is a research fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. He has written six books on Iranian politics, the latest of which is The Left in Contemporary Iran, published by The Hoover Press...
...Hoover Institution...
...name. (Would Parkinson's law ever have been discovered if C. Northcote Parkinson had remained Cyril N. Parkinson?) More commonly, such changes suppress a plain name. (Could Bill Harriman have served Presidents as grandly as W. Averell Harriman did? Would the FBI have achieved the same renown under Jack Hoover as it did under J. Edgar Hoover...
...over greece. After an absence of nine years, the famous "zipper," true to its nickname, again began zipping around 1 Times Square, known also as the tower where the New Year countdown begins with the dropping of a giant apple. First lighted on Nov. 6, 1928, to report Herbert Hoover's presidential election, the zipper paraded the Hindenburg explosion, the end of World War II and other newsworthy events until its operator, the New York Times,pulled the plug in 1962. Resurrected in 1965 by Life and other sponsors, it flickered until 1977. Last week's comeback...