Word: j
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...four years past the usual mandatory retirement age for federal employees. But last week, as he celebrated his 45th anniversary in the same job, FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover allowed that he has "many plans and aspirations for the future. None of them," said Hoover pointedly, "include retirement. As long as God grants me the health and stamina to continue, I have no ambition other than to remain in my post as director...
...high school carnival in Westminster, Md., one evening last year, Irving West, a truck driver just out of the Army, got into a fight. When a local policeman seized him, West snapped: "Get your goddam hands off me." Next day Magistrate Charles J. Simpson sentenced West to 30 days in jail and a $25 fine for disorderly conduct. That came as no surprise, but the 20-year-old veteran was totally unprepared for what followed. He was hit with an additional 30-day sentence and another $25 fine for violation of Maryland's 320-year-old blasphemy law. West...
...recently opened portable at the Los Angeles Civic Center accommodates up to 1,236 cars, and Portable Parking has contracts to build similar structures in San Francisco, St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo. J. J. Dreyfuss, the general manager, estimates that the firm will gross $7, 000,000 this year...
Collective Bargaining. Two weeks ago, a federal court jury in Pittsburgh handed down a guilty verdict. Convicted of violating the Sherman Act were American Standard, Kohler Co., and Borg-Warner Corp.-along with Daniel Quinn, Vice President Norman R. Held of Kohler and Joseph J. Decker, manager of product coordination at American Standard. Last year the other twelve companies,* the P.F.M.A. and five executives had decided not to fight the charges; all pleaded "no contest." The courts levied fines totaling $712,500, and the executives served jail sentences of from one to 30 days...
...Committee also announced the Overseers' election of Mrs. Carl J. Gilbert, chairman of the Board of Trustees of Radcliffe, to the Committee and the appointment of Carl Kaysen, director of the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey, as a consultant. Kaysen was formerly a professor of Economics at Harvard and an assistant to President Kennedy for national security affairs...