Word: patrick
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There were damaging revelations of Hoover's petty corruption and personal wars against political dissenters and black leaders. L. Patrick Gray, the acting director, politicized the agency by bending to pressure from the Nixon White House to impede the Watergate investigations. Outgoing Director Clarence Kelley, who is due to retire by Feb. 15, has been unable to wrest full control from the remaining members of Hoover's inner circle. Within the past five years, moreover, it has been disclosed that a number of the FBI's 8,400 agents have been involved in illegal entries and mail...
Other members gripe about the time that they must spend traveling to home districts and their lack of family life. Adds Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, a first-term Democrat: "There is no time to think ahead on important issues. It's even impossible to think out just the political effects of a decision." Democratic Senator Lawton Chiles of Florida bemoans life in a fishbowl: "Half of the reporters in town are looking on you as a Pulitzer Prize waiting...
...teachers as the system as a whole. The school board was compelled to separate 3,500 teachers into two lines, one for whites, the other for blacks and Hispanics. Then they drew their new assignments by lot from a box. On the U.S. Senate floor, New York's Daniel Patrick Moynihan assailed this racial nitpicking. "In the name of civil rights," he complained, "the Office for Civil Rights is mandating practices which would have appalled us a decade ago, practices which mindlessly violate the most fundamental principles of this nation as set down in the Constitution. Such practices evoke...
Costello's underdog sympathies come easily. Born Declan Patrick McManus, he was the only child of a marriage that ended when his father, a jazz trumpeter and cabaret singer, hit the road for good. Costello grew up in a blue-collar section of London. At 18 he became a computer man in a nearby suburb. His first songs were composed to the whir of machines and the rumble of trains, and on weekends he scratched for pickup jobs as a guitarist...
...Deval L. Patrick '78, co-chairman of Dunster House Committee, yesterday said the Vorenberg's "conception of the masters' role includes a great deal of activity in the House. They are leaving because they feel they can no longer give it enough of their time...