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COINTELPRO. The name itself sounds Orwellian. The late J. Edgar Hoover's aides invented the acronym in 1956. It stood for Counterintelligence Program, a secret, often illegal FBI campaign of surveillance and sabotage against a wide variety of right-and left-wing groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, the Black Panthers and the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. Not until 1971, a year before his death, did Hoover, alarmed by the threat of exposure, suspend the program. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence exposed the full scope of COINTELPRO'S partly unconstitutional mission in 1975, but only last...
...Fred J. Emery, director of the Federal Register, looks over his desk each day at a 15-ft. shelf containing 73,000 pages of the Code of Federal Regulation. There are millions of entries, new rules for life in these United States. It grows as much as 5,000 pages a year. Emery has started a school for the rule writers. He is trying to make the language at least understandable. He illustrates the problem with a parable: "It is like the two fellows in the hot air balloon who get lost in a cloud and, emerging, call down...
...city's master builder is J. Irwin Miller, a civic-minded industrialist and former president of the National Council of Churches who is sometimes called "the Medici of the Middle West." In 1939, Miller startled Columbus by choosing the great Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen to design a new building for Columbus' First Christian Church. But it was not until 1957 that Miller really shook up the old town. By then he was board chairman of his family's Cummins Engine Co. and was concerned about the difficulty of attracting talented young executives to Columbus. So he announced...
...described as "died-in-the-wool Republican," he called for an across-the-board income tax of at least 25% and endorsed phone tapping in the interests of national security. "I think it's high time some people were watched," he once said in response to criticism of J. Edgar Hoover...
Figures that Frank J. Weissbecker, director of Food Services, submitted to CHUL show that the cost of providing meals varies widely among the Houses and the Union...