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Hoover ultimately came to his police work with a vision of national destiny. If his FBI was incorruptible, it became at the same time an instrument of his zealotry. He exaggerated the domestic Communist menace while for years curiously neglecting organized crime. His men were swift to find the bodies of Andrew Goodman, James Chancy and Michael Schwerner after they were killed in Philadelphia, Miss., and to solve the Klan killing of Mrs. Viola Liuzzo in Alabama; yet they seemed slow otherwise to enforce the cause of civil rights. When Martin Luther King Jr. suggested that Southern FBI offices were...
...necessary now to avoid wholesale butchery later on. The major conservation groups disagree, warning that such expedient changes would set a dangerous precedent. Urging moderation, William D. Ruckelshaus, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, argues that "the impact statement is a powerful but costly instrument in the fight against pollution. We must not, by [its] indiscriminate application, generate cost and delays leading to a public counterreaction...
...wind solos, among them the beautiful clarinet and bassoon accompaniment to Don Ottavio's Il Mio Tesoro Intanto. An important detail was the size of the harpsichord: mercifully, it was large enough to cut through the heavier scoring, avoiding the distracting jangle that is the fate of a small instrument pushed to extremes...
...argument thought-provoking but hardly conclusive. "Greer exposes the bankruptcy of an institution." says Marvin Lazarson of the Harvard School of Education, "but he deals with these important questions too loosely. The argument is still open." If Greer is right, however, the schools are a far more limited instrument for solving the problems of race and poverty than most people think. He concludes: "The local business, the local church and local fraternal society, followed by the factory, the union, the political machine, were agents of mobility and Americanization before the school...
...point was the 1970 Cambodian invasion. Richard Goodwin, once a Kennedy speechwriter, wrote a denunciation of Nixon's "usurpation" of power; Shawn used it as an editorial. After that "Notes and Comment," once the fluffy lead-in to each issue, frequently became the magazine's most somber instrument...