Word: knighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...investigation of the Secret Service (see story page 15). Democratic Senator Joseph Montoya, whose Senate subcommittee oversees the elite protective agency, has summoned Secret Service Director H. Stuart Knight to public hearings this week. Montoya wants to know why Moore was not at least followed after being interviewed by Secret Service agents on the night before she shot at Ford. A San Francisco police officer, Inspector Jack O'Shea, had repeatedly warned the Secret Service that Moore "could be another Squeaky" and had ordered one gun taken from her. She promptly bought another. Montoya will also ask why neither Fromme...
...threats?that are somehow linked to presidential security. About 4,000 suspects are interviewed, some 300 people posing potential danger are located, and some 60 arrests are made. The Service also continually updates its master list of 38,000 people who, in the words of Director H. Stuart Knight, "have a propensity for violence...
...present 38,000. Some agents are said to be skittish of placing a suspect under surveillance, fearing the repercussions of being overzealous. At the same time, however, the Service is now being urged to clamp a tighter aegis over the President. "With criticism coming from both sides," Director Knight asked recently, "how are we to know where to strike the proper balance...
...agents are acutely aware that there is simply no way to ensure that a President who comes in frequent contact with his fellow Americans can be utterly free from harm. And no man wants to be on the detail that allowed the President to be shot. As Director Knight observed recently, protecting the President is "a living nightmare in a democracy...
...ground, Marlowe works his way through L.A., low life to high society and back again, trailing in his wake subplots and an ever increasing number of corpses. This time around, Robert Mitchum stars as Marlowe. He is all wrong. For Chandler, Marlowe was a kind of rogue knight. Mitchum plays him with the same sloppy self-loathing that he has frequently used to demonstrate his superiority to a role. If this contempt suits Mitchum, it ill becomes Marlowe. With the main character deep-sixed, Farewell, My Lovely loses its moral center and its dynamic...