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Encouraged, the Crimson began to pour it on. The 1000-free matched Navy star Rex Hand against Howie Burns and Henry Watson. Hand took the lead right away, but after 400 yards, Burns began to move and passed Hand 150 yards later...
...years, under eight Presidents, J. Edgar Hoover has presided over the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He will be 76 on New Year's Day, but the prickly views on everything from his former bosses to the "jackals of the press," the frank prejudices, the devotion to the bureau pour forth with undiminished vigor. On the wall of his office is a mounted sailfish whose staring eyes are as steely as the chiefs own. There Hoover discussed a variety of topics with TIME Correspondent Dean Fischer. Excerpts from the interview...
...letters pour in at the rate of thousands a month. "About 1% of it is unfavorable," she claims, though the Gallup poll rates opinions of her as 33% unfavorable to 43% favorable. A recent morning's sampling of letters included encomiums from a woman in New Jersey ("I think you are absolutely great. You call a spade a spade") and a Tennessee man who asked for a picture of her so that "when things go wrong, I will look at it and it will cheer me up." A man in Ohio urged her to start a national women's organization...
Much as we would like to pour 500,000 people into Washington this weekend to shut down that city, the movement has neither the leadership, the organization, nor the network of news dissemination to make such a protest effective...
...Poured Foundation. Gagosian, 46, was one of the first to recognize such trends. Son of an Armenian immigrant who was converted to Mormonism ("I'll bet I'm the only Armenian Mormon you ever met"), Gagosian literally helped pour the foundation of the nation's motel industry. In a 20-year career as a hardhat construction worker and later as vice president in charge of construction for TraveLodge Corp., he helped build more than 300 motels. He tired of duplicating TraveLodge's basic pattern, and in 1965 assembled three fellow employees and $50,000 to build...