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Vintage Year. In 1924, Attorney General (later Supreme Court Justice) Harlan Fiske Stone offered to make Hoover director of the department's Bureau of Investigation, then a slovenly, corrupt outfit. Though only 29, Hoover insisted that he would take the job only if the bureau were divorced from politics and the civil service. He established an absolute authority at the beginning. He demanded that his agents have either a law or an accounting degree, resisted any and all political pressures. Hoover turned the bureau into the world's most efficient crime-fighting apparatus, with an elaborate fingerprint library...
...shows off the advertising banners; he's not sure where he'll put them. "If only we could hang them out of Mem Church, but..." He has the same problem with the marquee, but isn't worried. Paula has found another possible outfit, which still is not what Guy wants; Curt comes in wearing tuxedo pants, and Guy's face lights up. "They're absolutely perfect! Where'd you get them?" He has sent back the programs to be reprinted; they were on the wrong kind of paper with the wrong print. Tomorrow will be the final decisions on costumes...
...Poko Valley's peace was shattered by a 30,000-man North Vietnamese force that included the 320th Division, a veteran outfit that had fought at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. One by one, the ARVN bases fell to the North Vietnamese; the losses included a string of seven artillery positions on aptly named Rocket Ridge, which looks down on Kontum 25 miles away. None of the terror-stricken ARVN units put up much of a struggle, but few faded as ignobly as the 1,200-man garrison at Tan Canh, the forward headquarters of the troubled 22nd...
...handles the whole thing very gracefully by taking his belt, swallowing hard and flashing a quick victory grin at his disappointed companions. Bush, so good as Jack Nicholson's hillbilly buddy in Five Easy Pieces, is even better here-prickly and sardonic. The other members of the Culpepper outfit are stolid and laconic, but most of them (especially Luke Askew and Bo Hopkins) manage to be interesting anyhow...
...than some American giant," he says. Breguet also got a lift from French tax laws: to stimulate construction, the government has cut the corporate tax rate for new builders from 50% to 15% for their first seven years, provided they plow back their profits. Breguet formed his own construction outfit and builds only three to five models per project, keeping costs low by standardizing room layouts and construction materials...