Word: jr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entirely convincing. It has long been common knowledge that the Government listened in regularly on the telephone conversations of Teamsters Boss Jimmy Hoffa and a wide assortment of Mafia chieftains. But recently the public has also learned that the FBI indulged in eavesdropping on Negro Leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Elijah Muhammad, as well as such white radicals as David Dellinger and Jerry Rubin. Not even Capitol Hill is immune, according to Democratic Senator Ralph W. Yarborough of Texas and Republican Senator Carl T. Curtis of Nebraska, who contend that congressional telephones have also been subjected to bugging...
...emphasized that [the proposal] would have very detrimental effects on gifts to institutions at a time when they could ill afford it," commented the Harvard representative, Eugene G. Kraetzer Jr '29, assistant to the secretary to the Corporation...
Died. Herbert Hoover Jr., 65, son of the 31st President, former Under Secretary of State (1954-57), and successful geologist and engineer; of cancer; in Pasadena, Calif. When his father entered the White House, Hoover was 25 and had already set about carving out a career; he made his professional mark in the scientific and administrative sides of mining. Avoiding politics, he sought the ingredients of what he considered a happy life: "The outdoors, far away places, and mining engineering." It was his mining experience that prompted John Foster Dulles to send him to Iran in 1953 as a trouble...
...company left for them to manage. Lower executives fret about keeping their jobs after a takeover. Then there is company involvement in urban affairs; executives are expected to participate KAISER MEDICAL OFFICE in community groups at the expense of their free time. Says Dr. L. S. Thompson Jr., a physician who treats executives of Dallas' Southland Life Insurance Co.: "You see a lot of battle fatigue in business, just...
...chief conspirator in The Lost Man is Jason Higgs (Sidney Poitier), a radical organizer who plots a theoretically infallible payroll robbery. But harassed by police and chivied by a disciple of nonviolence (Al Freeman Jr.), Jason seems cursed from the opening. When the robbery erupts into blood and death, it is only a formal ratification of doom. Jason's descent from provocateur to fugitive and his ultimate Tristan and Isolde death scene with a white chick (Joanna Shimkus) are even stagier and more predictable...