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...Bunche is the widow of the late U.N. Under Secretary-General (1968-71) Ralph J. Bunche...
...Scott J. Lyford...
Last week Carter met with 52 of the nation's top corporate executives at New York's "21" Club (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). One of the hosts was a friend from Atlanta, Coca-Cola Board Chairman J. Paul Austin. Carter strongly endorsed free enterprise-as he had to the convention-and had friendly words for multinational corporations. Said he: "I have never had a goal for Government to dominate business...
...J. Edgar Hoover's image as an incorruptible crimebuster has crumbled since his death in 1972. Congressmen and journalists have exposed the late FBI director as a petty tyrant who conducted vicious personal vendettas, trampled on citizens' rights and all too eagerly carried out requests from Presidents to investigate their political rivals (TIME cover, Dec. 22). Now federal investigators have found that Hoover and his cronies in the bureau improperly dipped into FBI funds for private parties, vacation trips and other personal expenses...
...bureau's 20,000 employees. A former FBI official told TIME that Hoover looked on the association fund as "nothing more than a tax dodge." According to the ex-official, Hoover ordered that the proceeds (about $75,000) from his books, A Study of Communism in 1962 and J. Edgar Hoover on Communism in 1969, be turned over to the Recreation Association. "Then," said the former official, "Hoover tapped the tax-free money in the treasury for his personal expenses." Some of the money paid for Hoover's vacations in Florida and California and Christmas gifts...