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...time between the introduction of a new product or service and its acceptance as a mainstream must-have has grown remarkably short. Case in point: some 45 million U.S. households, or 50% of the total, now own videocassette recorders. Says Lillian Mohr, director of the Center for Economic Education at Florida State University: "Young people have redefined the 'necessities.' I hear them talking about how they 'need' a VCR or to go somewhere on vacation...
Clarence Kelley was appointed FBI director in 1973 and seemed to be having a hard time gaining control of the Bureau machinery. Retired Administrator Mohr, according to many agents, urged Kelley to bring Adams back from exile. Kelley did so, and Adams prospered: within a year, he was named the bureau's third in command, in charge of all FBI investigations. The promotion of Adams created one of Kelley's biggest headaches, forcing him to deny repeatedly that the bureau was being controlled by Hoover's people. The charge was that Mohr still flashed signals to Adams...
...became acute when House hearings on FBI practices compelled him to open a probe into the corruption of an agency once thought incorruptible. It turned out that FBI administrators had sanctioned big markups in the price of bugging equipment bought by the bureau from a favored contractor, Joseph Tait. Mohr, Callahan, Adams and as many as a dozen other FBI officials regularly played poker with Tait at the Blue Ridge Club near Harpers Ferry...
...investigation of itself was supervised by Callahan, Adams and another of Mohr's gambling buddies. After a two-month inquiry, the probers concluded that Mohr had done nothing wrong, the bureau's purchasing procedures were proper, and the games were just innocent social gatherings. Former Attorney General Edward H. Levi dismissed the findings as a whitewash and ordered the FBI to investigate again, under close Justice Department supervision. The second time around, the findings forced Kelley to discharge Callahan for misuse of FBI funds. Mohr, in retirement, was criticized, but Adams emerged unscathed...
...Justice investigators found that similar services were provided (on a lesser scale) to Hoover Aides John P. Mohr and Nicholas Callahan. These men were found to have destroyed records of an FBI "recreation" fund after Hoover's death, and after Callahan had spent $39,590 of the money for an unexplained "library fund." The two former officials, along with G. Speights McMichael, another aide to Hoover, were also held responsible for a questionable business arrangement. This involved purchases of electronic equipment, without competitive bidding, from the Washington-based U.S. Recording Co. between 1963 and 1975. One such purchase...