Word: ranks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even as he railed against gays as "sexual deviants," Hoover apparently struggled with his own homosexuality. Summers offers fresh details of Hoover's 40-year friendship with Clyde Tolson, a handsome young agent he plucked out of the rank and file and quickly promoted to assistant director. The pair ate dinner together almost every night and vacationed together every year; Summers contends that Luisa Stuart, a former fashion model, once saw them holding hands in the back seat of a limo. According to Summers, the Mafia claimed to have the goods on Edgar and Clyde, including compromising photographs...
...protean figures responsible for the integration of sports in America, Ashe stood in the first rank. Jesse Owens proved that white men do not run faster or jump farther than blacks. Jackie Robinson disproved with a fiery passion that whites have a stronger desire to win. Muhammad Ali demonstrated in the ring that speed and power were only the obvious ways in which a black athlete could be agile and courageous. There have been other pathfinders: decathlete Milt Campbell, golfer Charlie Sifford, and in Ashe's own sport the lithe and graceful Althea Gibson...
...Colorado, where environmental concerns rank right up there with ski fever, a company called ReeSki is mining profits from discarded non-biodegradable skis: Adirondack-style chairs
February 1993--Harvard point guard "Buzz" Proudfit is wooing Crimson fans with her defensive moves and her fail-safe jump shot, Frey is back at Harvard, majoring in sociology and compiling a three-point percentage (.467) that's good enough to rank her 10th in the country, and Butler is having a truly amazing, ultra-astounding, cosmically blessed sophomore season, leading the Ivy League in scoring (16.4 ppg) and rebounding (12.4 rpg) and boasting the 8th highest rebounding average in the nation...
...East Wing with her social secretary, Letitia Baldrige, Mrs. Clinton has moved into the West Wing of the White House with all the men, and for the next 100 days will be in charge of figuring out the health-care crisis. Five of her staff have presidential-assistant rank, compared with one for other First Ladies. At the moment, other than the President, there is no more powerful person in the White House than Hillary Rodham Clinton...