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...Patrick Gray III, 61, a career naval officer who served as acting FBI director from May 1972 to April 1973, when he returned to his law practice in Groton, Conn., after withdrawing his name from nomination as J. Edgar Hoover's successor because of growing opposition in the Senate. The chief reason: Gray had destroyed evidence in the Watergate scandal...
Bell has been uncomfortably mulling over the FBI cases ever since he took office and found out about the bureau's misdeeds. They were being investigated by Assistant Attorney General J. Stanley Pottinger, but he was making little progress because of a stubborn cover-up within the FBI. Pottinger had begun his probe in 1976 by recruiting a team of twelve FBI agents, which was later expanded to 24, all of whom were chosen on the basis of their known integrity and loyalty to the U.S. Government rather than to the FBI establishment...
...Country Club had been in existence since 1882, when it was founded by J. Murray Forbes. Since it was the first of the genus of country clubs which are now a staple of American culture, the club's founding fathers had not thought it necessary to specify when picking a name. As a contemporary wrote--"so unique is its fame, that all up and down the Atlantic seaboard no reference to locality is needed in speaking to good sportsmen of "The Country Club...
With spring the Yard turns green again, we look for summer jobs again, and J. Wyatt Emmerich scribbles about sociobiology again. This year he claims Professor DeVore is out of his league, but perhaps it is Emmerich who is guilty of this...
...recent editorial on Irven DeVore's Science Center lecture on human evolution, J. Wyatt Emmerich raises the spectre of Victorian Social Darwinism at Harvard, headquartered in the anthropology department. He accuses DeVore of being "out of his league." He wonders at the paradox of a talk on human evolution focusing on the behavior of Homo sapiens' predecessors; where is the paradox? He sagely asserts that DeVore "fails to understand that human beings are qualitatively unique organisms"; all animal species are "qualitatively unique." He links DeVore's studies to those of "sociobiology" in an apparent attempt to discredit DeVore through...