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...mandatory retirement age (he will be 74 on New Year's Day), and it is understood that he will step down at age 75 with 45 years of service as the bureau's chief. Why the extension? Explained a Nixon aide: "You don't begin a law and order campaign by firing J. Edgar Hoover...
...upper berth of a Pullman sleeper to save money, lecturing in the booming, resonant tones of a prophet. As early as 1928, he argued for old-age pensions and public works, the five-day week and unemployment insurance. When Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal made those ideas law, socialism's appeal to the U.S. working class began to diminish. "It was often said," Thomas reflected, "that Roosevelt was carrying out the Socialist Party platform. Well, in a way it was true -he carried it out on a stretcher...
...another footnote to Jewish his tory, the Spanish government last week issued a decree under which Madrid's Jewish community was officially registered under Spain's religious-liberty law. Passed two years ago, it allowed the public practice of non-Catholic religions. To all intents and purposes, Jews have enjoyed tolerance in Spain under the constitution of 1869, which proclaimed limited religious freedom, and under the 1966 law. All the same, last week's decree marked the first time since Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492, during the Inquisition, that they had been officially and formally...
...NORMAN C. FRANCIS, 37, XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA, New Orleans (1,362 students). Francis came to Catholic Xavier as a 17-year-old scholarship student and there he has remained, even working in a Xavier dorm while becoming the first Negro ever to earn a law degree at nearby Loyola. He served in a variety of administrative posts, organized the school's recent $10,000,000 expansion program...
Much of U.S. Steel's recent activity bears the imprint of Ed Gott, who helped launch the modernization drive and has pressed for diversification. In replacing Blough, who will become a partner in the Manhattan law firm of White & Case, where he worked before joining U.S. Steel in 1942, Gott is naturally careful to give his predecessor proper credit. "We're only trying to complete what Blough started," he says. One of Gott's goals is to lift the company's share of the steel market back up to 30% within the next several years...